Quotes About Career

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

I believe that knowing when to leave one's employer is a critical success factor in building a career, assuming that the logic behind one's decision makes some sense.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

Why do we do work we hate all our lives? Somewhere earlier on the road somebody must have made us feel that we didn't have an option to do otherwise. I'm sure it gets psychologically complex

Food, love, mother and career: the four basic guilt groups.

Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Mothers, food, love, and career - the four major guilt groups.

Just because women can bear children doesn't mean they're unable to harbour the same sort of career ambitions as a man.

What is it you really want?" Emily said. "Because if what you want is the big career, then you need to stick with that—and stop torturing the person who can't or won't follow. I speak from some experience on that.

He didn't believe that life was just getting a job you hated and working really hard at it so you could earn enough money to have periodic fun.

under the surface there is often ambivalence about women at work that makes their position vulnerable.

The moment a child answers the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' he is halfway to being an adult.

she could make the decision whether she moved jobs or not.

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

In 'The Female Eunuch' I argued that motherhood should not be treated as a substitute career; now I would argue that motherhood should be regarded as a genuine career option, that is to say, as paid work and, as such, as an alternative to other paid work. What this would mean is that every woman who decides to have a child would be paid enough to raise that child in decent circumstances.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Get a better job, Harve. Ask for a raise. Good Lord, we aren't living. We're existing!

I try not to do the fantasy thing. If I didn't get hurt, what would I be? Who knows? When I look back on my career, from the hard work I put in, I got everything I deserved.

I had been pregnant in the sixties, and at nineteen years old had had an illegal abortion that probably influenced the messy state of my reproductive organs. For the next nineteen years my priority was to finish my education and pursue my career. Now I couldn't take my fate: You'll never have a baby. That was the sentence handed to me. I began to beat my fists against a door that maybe I had locked on the other side.

My first picture was Kitty Foyle. It was my mother who made all those films with Fred Astaire.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.