Quotes About Career

Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide.

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.

The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them.

But the truth is, I've never wanted to be a movie star - and I've been pretty clear about that.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth.

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby, then you'll be way ahead of the game.

I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the Post, but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.

Stop thinking you have to go to big industry to have a big life, because it's not the truth.

The truth will only be told over a career.

If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.

A great teacher once taught me that you've got to have faith that everything happens for the best. I have had many setbacks in my career and every setback has led me that much further into my truth.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.

I saw a lot of friends and acquaintances turn their bands which were previously something that they did out of passion into a shot at a small business," Steve Albini told the venerable zine Punk Planet. "In the course of doing it, they ended up hating their bands in a way that I used to hate my job, because it became something they had to do: it was an obligation.

The lucky ones are the people like your husband there. The ones who find work that means something to them. That they can really put their heart into, however foolish it might look to other people.

Sammy could not have known that one day he would come to regard all the things that their loving each other had seemed to put at so much risk--his career in comic books, his relations with his family, his place in the world--as the walls of a prison, an airless, lightless keep from which there was no hope of escape. Sammy had long since ceased to value the security that he had once been so reluctant to imperil.

He felt, and not for the first time today, that he had not made a good decision in his personal or professional life since 1989.

Bosch had always thought it wasn't a bad way to go—doing what you loved.