Quotes About Career

Manny, what are you doing working in auto parts?" "Resting. My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

What's the easiest fucking thing to take?" I asked him. "Journalism. Those journalism majors don't do anything." "O.K., I'll be a journalist.

Everybody had to conform, find a mold to fit into. Doctor, lawyer, soldier -- it didn't matter what it was. Once in the mold you had to push forward. Sussex was as helpless as the next man. Either you managed to do something or you starved in the streets.

it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

Just like some guys can't taxi or pimp or hustle dope, most guys, and gals too, can't be postal clerks.

I checked two ads, went to two places and both of the places hired me. The first place smelled like work, so I took the second.

I'm one of those who doesn't think there is much difference between an atomic scientist and a man who cleans the seats except for the luck of the draw--parents with enough money to point you safely toward a more generous life.

Janeway Smithson had been on the job for twenty-five years and was dumb enough to be proud of it. He

Yeah, well, I wanted to be a screenwriter, and guess what? I am one. That's the other tragedy in life.

A historian who works for a bank: That's not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures, is it?

I'm not mad, you know, although it helps in this line of work.

Amy Sullivan, age twenty-seven, assistant Human Resources manager at FlavrsMart Branch 322, Chickentown

Researchers may have some conscious or unconscious bias, either because of a strongly held prior belief or because a positive finding would be better for their career. (No one ever gets rich or famous by proving what doesn't cause cancer.)

I had always dreamed of being a professional escort but never thought that there was any real money in it.

My time in heaven was up, and I was being told I wasn't the marrying kind by someone who undresses for a living.

Becoming a flight attendant was at once rebellion and escape

There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially.

Once you stop thinking about the minutiae of what each part might mean for your career, you learn that if you do a good performance, it's going to be good for you. The work is what matters.

I don't think about an industry or building things, but somebody says you're lucky if you find something you like to do, which is true, and then it's a miracle if you get paid to do it.

Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp.

To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.

I'm essentially an actor. And the fact that I got away with singing and dancing for a long time is still a miracle to me.

We are very, very fortunate to have built a career based on playing the kind of music we play. In a lot of ways, it's a very eclectic style. It's not pop; it's not mainstream; so the fact that we have been able to have the career that we have had internationally, with all the success we've had, it's like a miracle. It's amazing.