Quotes and Sayings about Careers

"Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives."
- Joe Baca
(Related: Family, Careers, Community, Help, School, Variety, Will)

"The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it."
- Adam Baldwin
(Related: People, Control, Careers, Key, Living)

"Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Careers, Name, Now, Today, Will)

"I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job."
- Craig Benson
(Related: Business, Time, Careers, Job, Legislators, Running)

"Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile."
- Gary Ryan Blair
(Related: Goals, Careers)

"I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos."
- Kenneth Branagh
(Related: Careers, Shakespeare)

"The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Music, Careers, Name, Names)

"No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after."
- Edie Brickell
(Related: Careers, Famous, Songs)

"The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers."
- Dick Butkus
(Related: Money, Athletes, Careers, Marketing, Value)

"All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers."
- John Cale
(Related: Selling, Audiences, Careers, Result)

"Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible."
- Chris Cannon
(Related: Experience, Career, Careers, College, Leaders, Military, Nation, Service)

"Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: People, Successful, Careers, Reality, Sense)

"I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman."
- Camille Claudel
(Related: Art, Change, Careers, Faces, Job, Ugly, Woman)

"It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me."
- Joel Coen
(Related: Funny, Hope, Careers)

"By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers."
- Donald Cram
(Related: Time, Decision, Careers, Children, College, Court, Girls)

"Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically."
- Phil Crosby
(Related: Careers, Leaders)

"Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people."
- Sheryl Crow
(Related: People, Careers)

"I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!"
- Sheryl Crow
(Related: People, Careers)

"There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold."
- Matt Damon
(Related: Time, People, Careers, Famous)

"All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it."
- Dizzy Dean
(Related: Careers, Giants, Help, Want, Wind)

"It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers."
- Kenneth Edmonds
(Related: Artists, Being, Careers)

"There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare."
- Daniel Ellsberg
(Related: People, Courage, Being, Careers, Iraq, Vietnam)

"There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers."
- Dorothy Fields
(Related: Time, Women, Careers, Doctors, Lady, Lawyers, Reason)

"I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare."
- Joely Fisher
(Related: People, Careers, Day, Learning)

"One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers."
- Andrew Fletcher
(Related: Music, Careers, Old, Songs, Today, Want)

"When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks."
- Bob Geldof
(Related: Careers)

"Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know."
- Richard Gere
(Related: Actors, Careers)

"Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty."
- Herbert Gold
(Related: Beauty, Truth, Careers, Literature, Living, Meaning, Memories, Nerves, Writers)

"Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers."
- Christine Gregoire
(Related: Education, Careers, Poverty)

"It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers."
- Don Henley
(Related: Careers, Famous, Pretty)

"I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers."
- John Hewson
(Related: Politics, Time, Wife, Careers, Stress)

"If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet."
- Brad Holland
(Related: Careers, Painting, Today)

"You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: People, Careers, Today)

"We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over."
- Alberto Juantorena
(Related: Athletes, Careers, Future, Want)

"We do not use managers, we are the representatives of our athletes, and that is why I am deeply involved in athletics, I follow our athletes careers from start to finish, 100% all the way."
- Alberto Juantorena
(Related: Athletes, Careers, Managers)

"We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am."
- Thomas Keller
(Related: Careers)

"I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep."
- Val Kilmer
(Related: People, Careers, Respect, Sleep, Will)

"My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!"
- Jonathan King
(Related: Being, Careers, Reward)

"This is a great time in our lives and careers."
- Nick Lachey
(Related: Time, Careers)

"Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting."
- Ang Lee
(Related: Acting, Actors, Careers, Risk, Stars)

"Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country."
- Arto Lindsay
(Related: Work, People, Ideas, Careers, Country, Years)

"Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well."
- LaToya London
(Related: Careers, Past, Years)

"If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged."
- Jennifer Lopez
(Related: Music, Balance, Careers, Celebrity, Film)

"Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats."
- Og Mandino
(Related: Success, Selling, Victory, Careers, Importance, Obstacles)

"I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive."
- Barry Mann
(Related: Wife, Beginning, Careers)

"I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again."
- Frances McDormand
(Related: Work, Life, Character, Actors, Career, Careers, Stars, Worry)

"Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again."
- Frances McDormand
(Related: Work, Actors, Careers, Stars)

"I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey."
- Mark Messier
(Related: Careers, Now, Old, Play, Years)

"It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers."
- Gordon Moore
(Related: Careers, Excitement, School, Students, Today, Will)

"The coolest thing is that my sister and I, you know, we've done what a lot of people have not been able to do. Which is to have our own careers, together."
- Tia Mowry
(Related: Sister, People, Careers)

"Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry."
- Jason Mraz
(Related: Careers)

"The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation."
- John George Nicolay
(Related: History, Men, Genius, Careers, Fame, First, Meetings, Nation)

"Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science."
- Paul Nurse
(Related: Science, Progress, Careers, Philosophy, Students, Study)

"Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career."
- Barack Obama
(Related: People, Career, Careers, Community, Play)

"The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years."
- David Ogilvy
(Related: Age, Life, Careers, Years)

"The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex."
- John Osborne
(Related: Time, Sex, Sacrifice, People, Beliefs, Careers, First)

"In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Change, Politics, Careers)

"People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them."
- John Dos Passos
(Related: People, Careers)

"Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater."
- William Petersen
(Related: Love, Careers, Chicago, First, First love, Friends, Theater, Will)

"We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act."
- Kelly Preston
(Related: Time, Work, HusbAct, Balance, Careers, Children, Friends, Projects, Trying)

"I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase."
- Paul Putner
(Related: Careers, Jobs, School)

"The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers."
- Jim Ramstad
(Related: Purpose, Careers, Discrimination, Now, Result)

"The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough."
- Andy Rooney
(Related: Careers, Musicians, professionals, World)

"I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do."
- Diana Ross
(Related: Careers, Feet, Girls)

"At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military."
- Wally Schirra
(Related: Careers, End, Military)

"But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand."
- George C. Scott
(Related: Careers)

"My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers."
- Pauly Shore
(Related: Mom, People, Being, Careers, Comedians, Lady)

"Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers."
- Ron Silver
(Related: Truth, Fear, Artists, Careers, Public)

"Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running."
- Gary Sinise
(Related: Time, Careers, Running)

"Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers."
- Penelope Spheeris
(Related: Careers, Dogs, Irish, Talking)

"Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers."
- Layne Staley
(Related: Life, Perception, Careers, Day, Meaning, Songs)

"I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking."
- Sylvester Stallone
(Related: Careers, Gravity, Mountains, Walking)

"Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested."
- David Steinberg
(Related: Careers, Help)

"During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot."
- Parker Stevenson
(Related: Time, Thought, People, Boys, Careers, Projects, Saying)

"I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner."
- Emma Stone
(Related: Women, Funny, Careers, Film, Night, Now)

"Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it."
- Igor Stravinsky
(Related: Music, Careers)

"The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace."
- Allen Tate
(Related: Career, Careers, Day, Future, Mission, Students)

"As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years."
- Major Taylor
(Related: Careers, Habits, Living, Remarkable, Reward, Stars, Years)

"They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers."
- Neil Tennant
(Related: Music, Careers)

"The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'"
- Katherine Whitehorn
(Related: Advice, Careers)

"I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that."
- Dianne Wiest
(Related: Careers, Kids)

"Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s."
- Kim Wilde
(Related: Careers)

"From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers."
- Olivia Wilde
(Related: Love, Age, Careers, Decisions, Diversity)

"Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work."
- Kenneth G. Wilson
(Related: Work, People, Opportunity, Careers, Commitment, Curiosity, Support)

"I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'."
- Debra Winger
(Related: Work, Careers)

"Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out."
- Reese Witherspoon
(Related: Work, Life, People, Careers, Energy, Job, Rest, Want, Will, Worry)

"Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world."
- Philip Zimbardo
(Related: Being, Careers, World)

"Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially."
- John Zimmerman
(Related: Change, Careers)