Quotes About Career

I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.

I've been killing characters my entire career, maybe I'm just a bloody minded bastard, I don't know, [but] when my characters are in danger, I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

His political career was suddenly rekindled, as slavery became the central, driving issue of his political concerns.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

A lawyer must first get on, then get honor, and then get honest.

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.

Now landsmen all, whoever you may be, If you want to rise to the top of the tree. If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool, Be careful to be guided by this golden rule - Stick close to your desks and never go to to sea, And you may all be Rulers of the Queen's Navee.

Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.

I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

I love this job. I love it to death. I love every waking minute of it.

Always remember that the soundest way to progress in any organization is to help the man ahead of you to get promoted.

Probably any successful career has "X" number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't superachievers is taking advantage of those breaks.