Quotes About Career

Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career.

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.

I've spent my whole career trying to stay out of any box that anyone could put me in. 'I'm going to do a play now.' 'Now I'll do a musical.' That was my instinct. So I don't feel boxed in. But 'African-American woman' is part of my identity. I don't want to relinquish that - especially as a mother, helping my daughter find her identity.

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'

I've been acting for a long time, and I've done a lot of things, and I've been maintaining my anonymity pretty well. I get recognized once a week, at most, here and there, so I'm reluctant to give that up.

When my playing career stopped and Old Dominion asked me to be an assistant, I was reluctant about it because I didn't aspire to be a coach, and I didn't know if I had the qualities to be a coach.

Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.

Some young people can rely on a privileged background and great connections to get work experience, but I don't believe anybody can be guaranteed success nowadays.

I'm an Arsenal player, and I want to remain an Arsenal player.

I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.

I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable.

I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce.

I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like Zeno's arrow, I was guaranteed never to arrive and always to remain dissatisfied.

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976.

I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.

I have no idea what I would be, I really don't have the vaguest idea what I would be, if my father had remained a Boston cop. I don't have any idea what I would have thought the horizon was.

Dad began his career in 1941. He started as a character actor and remained one right up to '87.

I am a senior Democratic Member of Congress whose parents were born in Puerto Rico and for whom Puerto Rico self-determination has been - and remains - a central issue of my congressional career.

For the rich and powerful, pregnancy might not be an obstacle - it might even help one's career. But for the rest of us, it remains a hindrance.

Though direction remains my first love, I will certainly be a bit more serious about acting.

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

When you think about what the odds are to have four boys to not only be able to follow in the footsteps in a basketball career but to also be good in the secondary career as far as the broadcasting, it's pretty remarkable.