Quotes About Career

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so easily wait to be chosen. Such passivity invites despair. To remain healthy and vital, artists must stay proactive in their own behalf.

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

The dominant value system of our commodity society is to marginalize that human dimension, a marginalization that is epitomized in the loss of the arts from school budgets and the making of money as the definition of a "career" and therefore the measure of education.

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

On January 1, 1919, all the yearlings in the big stable celebrated their second birthday. It didn't matter that all of them had some months to go before they were actually two years of age. Officially, in the eyes of the Thoroughbred Racing Association, they were two-year-olds, grown up and old enough to begin their racing careers the following spring.

That's the trouble. I would be digging a ditch. They would say, That's no place for a man like you. Come up to the office. So I would be an overseer, and they would say That's no place for a man like you: Come into the building. Later they would say This is no job for a man like you, come higher up; and I would quit, and go and start digging a ditch somewhere else. You see?

Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

The full reality has many layers, which is why it took a book to unravel. But here's the first clue: the male-female pay gap is not a gap between men and women; it's a gap between moms and dads. Or more precisely, between men and women's work-life decisions when they become moms and dads.

The challenge for your son's grandpa was grandpa's job going nowhere; for your son is his job going elsewhere.

It's like Tom Waits said," Petty remarks. "'I'm an artist, but I'm still in show business.

If you're thinking about your career, you probably don't have one.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

began to pray in earnest. She realized as she did so that she hadn't addressed God in any way since her father's fatal illness five years ago. And if God hadn't responded to that life-and-death situation, what were the chances that He was going to bother with a matter as small as Kendall Aims's career?

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

After 'Four Feathers ' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

I don't know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I've traveled to get here is like those interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you're not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you're going and realize that you've been traveling for a long time.

As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, "Aye, Sir. Course laid in" is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.

Beatty e eu trabalhamos juntos durante apenas um ano, mas nossa colaboração teve grande efeito em nossas carreiras subsequentes.

occupations by probability and by similarity in exactly the same way.

He looks around, he suddenly recognizes in his colleagues what others see in him: tax officials. And he is one of them. How could it have happened that he became a tax official? On the computer he looks at pictures from his school days. Back then he wasn't a tax official yet.