Quotes About Career

I'd probably do something that involved music, a booking agent or working at a label, if not being an actual musician.

It was not easy to get rid of that 'tv actor' label.

I want to avoid being labeled a sexy starlet, even at the cost of not working.

I'd like to work for as long as possible and form connections with the labels I work for.

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

I knew that manual labor wasn't the career for me.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

If there's nothing for me to do as an actress, then that's frustrating. I'd rather go work at a menial labour job, where I can actually get my hands dirty.

The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling.

People want to work, but they don't want to necessarily want to do labour.

I had a good career, but I still feel like I should have done more. It wasn't through a lack of trying. I just couldn't stay healthy.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

Choosing is hard, but not choosing is, in my view, much more debilitating. Sitting in limbo – not fully in your marriage and not out of it, looking at piles of pictures sitting on the floor rather than displaying them on a wall, letting time pass in a job you don't love but are reluctant to leave – and the non-choices are what will eat away at you.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.

I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.

Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely to quit.

All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2 200 songs. I was amazed.

Many of my river trips came in between jobs as it was a way to take stock and think about my professional path. It was on these in-between-jobs river trips that I realized being an effective leader means gaining the strength of others like tributaries feeding into the river, keeping the flow strong and steady. Instead of trying to blast through obstacles, it is better to negotiate around them with the help of rising waters.