Quotes About Career

When we adopt a professional identity, we are encouraged to think of it as our entire identity and we have little time or energy to explore and develop other aspects of our personalities. The career culture places little premium on the quality of roundedness, but we cannot be whole people without being rounded.

Write your passion and somebody will pay you for it.

You listen to me, Treadwell. You're an office pogue. You never been anything but an office pogue. You don't have the slightest idea what goes on in a working police division. But you keep your mouth shut and do what you're told and I'll see to it that you're a captain someday and you can have your own station to play with. You don't and I'll have you in uniform on the nightwatch in Watts. Understand me, Treadwell?

But Team Policing and the Basic Car Plan had created lots and lots of new jobs for officers of staff rank. Therefore lieutenants made captain, captains made commander and commanders made deputy chief, and everyone had all the time they needed to think up new things for the working cops to do aside from catching crooks, which most of the new captains, commanders and deputy chiefs knew nothing about.

I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do.

People ask me all the time, 'Are you fed up with reality TV?' At the end of the day, it can affect my career in the sense that the more reality shows there are, the less scripted dramas out there, but I can't ever really knock them. I started on 'Popstars ' which was a reality talent show. I have respect for them.

Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

Perhaps," observes James McPherson, "McClellan's career had been too successful. He had never known . . . the despair of defeat or the humiliation of failure. He had never learned the lessons of adversity and humility." Lincoln had clearly learned those lessons.

All I really needed to know about being a freelance assassin I learned before my youngest daughter, Trisha, started kindergarten.

When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said that I either wanted to be a philosopher or a clown, and I understood then, I think, that much depended on whether or not I found the world worth philosophizing about, and what the price of seriousness might be.

And once I wanted to be a fireman. Then

if you don't have love, you ought to have work you love to do.

Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom.

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown's most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

I majored in nursing. I had to drop it. I ran out of milk.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

I hope to work in Indian films again. I would love to.

The only thing I wanted out of Indiana was a chance to win my whole career there.

I have made the very difficult decision to leave my position as head coach of the men's basketball team at Indiana University.

I really wanted to stay in Indiana forever, but this is a business and you've got to respect the decisions that are made.

I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either.

It's not like I set out to be 'the indie guy.'

My job is to act, whether in indie or mainstream films.