Quotes About Career

Women who had once wanted careers were now making careers out of having babies.

Today you're a teen-ager, and they're supposed to have plenty of problems without borrowing extra ones. Right, Amy said. I have to find a boyfriend. And think about a career. And wear eye makeup. And learn all the new dances. And get to school on time!

Never again would he stand all day at a cash register, ringing up groceries for a long line of people who were always in a hurry. Ramona

Altogether, according to John McPhee, [geological ages] number in the "tens of dozens." Fortunately, unless you take up geology as a career, you are unlikely ever to hear any of them again.

The movie was an enormous hit in 1927. With Wings, it confirmed Bow as Hollywood's leading female star. She received forty thousand letters a week—more than the population of a fair-sized town. In the summer of 1927, her career seemed set to go on indefinitely. In fact, it was nearly at an end. Winsome and enchanting as she was to behold, her Brooklyn accent was the vocal equivalent of nails on a blackboard, and in the new world of talking pictures that would never do.

We need to understand why in a society so dependent on technology, a society that benefits so richly from the results of engineering, a society that rewards engineers so well, engineering isn't perceived as a desirable profession.

What makes Halsted's achievements all the more remarkable is that for much of his career he was a drug addict. While investigating methods for providing pain

One of the most useful pieces of advice we've learned in our journalism careers is summed up in the phrase beware the fallacy of evil men.

La chose la plus importante à toute vie est le choix d'un métier : le hasard en dispose.

20 years of schooling and they put you on the day shift.

You can write in multiple genres, but if you want a career in publishing, pick one genre and become very good at it. Then you can write the other stuff.

Just as it is important to know what you want in your novel, it is key to know what you want from your career.

yes, the bluffer should know that being an online 'influencer' is a real job, and that sound you can hear is a legion of long-deceased school careers officers spinning in their graves; no, being an online influencer almost certainly not what Dale Carnegie had in mind when he wrote How To Win Friends and Influence People)

black-market information. He had made powerful enemies in his career. And though he had gone "straight," his two enormous white Caucasian Ovcharka dogs were always at his side, just in case. Professional job, Harvath's message read. Possible foreign intel service. Pull surrounding CCTV footage. See if you can track the hitter. Returning to the bedroom

But if you are going to take up a profession – and I cannot see why you should want one at all, now that you have come into your property – surely you can chuse something better than magic! It has no practical application.

My job as assistant to junior account manager Mark Garrity was a dream come true. While some—namely my stepfather, megafinancier Richard Stanton—couldn't understand why I'd take an entry-level position considering my connections and assets, I was really proud to be working my way up. Mark was a great boss, both hands-on and hands-off, which meant I was learning a lot both by instruction and from doing it myself.

What do you have in mind after you graduate? What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue. I don't really know, I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.

I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English major. But an English major who knew shorthand would be something else again. Everybody would want her. She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter. The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.

must become (since I could not be a nun) a consecrated single woman. Now if I were inclined to a career as a lawyer or journalist that would be all right.

It was perfectly innocent.' That's what Gary Hart said. One day he's running for president, the next he's sitting in an office somewhere making paper-clip chains.

Boys who cry can work for Google. Boys who trash computers cannot. I once was at a science conference, and I saw a NASA scientist who had just found out that his project was canceled—a project he'd worked on for years. He was maybe sixty-five years old, and you know what? He was crying. And I thought, Good for him. That's why he was able to reach retirement age working in a job he loved.

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.

Notwithstanding the image of himself that he promoted, Trump's business career was always problematic.