Quotes About Career

My life and career is my own adventure.

I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor

I was a caddy. I also worked as a bouncer, selling Christmas trees at Frank's Nursery and before that, selling what they normally sell.

I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans and without that you don't have a career.

Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.

I don't even trust myself in my career much less giving somebody else advice.

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

A woman wasn't supposed to have a career. Today I'm convinced that there will be a woman President in my lifetime.

He hoped to find some new method of making a living and aspired to become a professional breeder of ferrets.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.

You can't buy back your respect you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

During my career, I would encounter numerous situations in which parties found themselves full of mistrust and anger, where it seemed that all doors had been closed. Ben-Gurion had shown me that listening is not just a key element of good leadership, it is the key, the means to unlock doors that have been slammed shut by bitter dispute and resignation.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

One corrected an outrageous legal discrimination against women schoolteachers. If pregnancy interrupted their careers, they lost their tenure rights. My bill changed that.

The difference between a career and a job," Judy had once told her, "is that a job gets you nowhere. If you plan a career, then a job should be a step toward a definite goal—when you accept a job you should know exactly when you intend to leave it.

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

I never would have given up my work to stay home.