Quotes About Career

Shibani Sharma got me a job as a translator in NDTV. Then NDTV India got launched and I worked on the desk for a while.

If I had a nickel for every time someone asked, 'When are you doing an album?' My career is way too transparent to do say, 'Guess what - I've got 16 tracks you've never heard!'

I do consider myself an actress now. I think 'Dig' and 'Transparent' have given me the confidence.

Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me.

Transport is not a ministry the ambitious should accept: no transport minister has gone on to be prime minister.

I flew everywhere for the first 10 years of my career, and I started to not like commercial transport. I just don't feel safe.

I have been a transportation leader and advocate my entire public career.

When I met Ram Charan, he told me not to worry about how much my films make. After 'Magadheera,' people began expecting big things from him. So he did films to keep up to that expectation. He advised me to not fall into that trap.

To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.

The best job for an introvert is the job that calls you.

In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.

Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

I found that tunnel vision, which an academic career simply requires, horrible.

I don't think I shall marry if I'm asked. There's too much occupational risk.

Don't fuss, Mary. I will write the letters tomorrow, before lunch. I would write them tonight, only I think we ought to dine out - don't you? - to celebrate the inauguration of my career as a parasite.

If I go to Stanfurd, I can get a good job and not have to sell oranges by the side of the highway.

It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

Adults with ADD are also more likely to be unemployed. One study found that only 24 percent of ADD adults were employed, compared to 79 percent of non-ADD adults.

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.