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"No decent career was ever founded on a public."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Career, Public

"Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Career, Joblessness, Reinvention, Growth, Creativity

"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Career, Nothing

"The purpose of employment is not to make money."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Career, Employment, Purpose, Money, Work

"Find a job from which you do not need a vacation."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Career, Job, Happiness, Work

"Having a job is being busy."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Career, Job, Work, Busyness, Effectiveness

"CA means Chakra of Ambitions. I am a Chartered Accountant."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

Career, Ambition, Success, Identity, Work

"Work is designed to be a means of fulfilling your destiny."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Career, Work, Destiny, Purpose, Fulfillment

"Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you."

Stephen King, American Author

Career, Work, Teaching, Mind, Stress

"Find a vocation and passionately commit your life to it."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Career, Find, Vocation, Passion, Life

Explore more quotes by Otis Blackwell

"I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today."

Career, Hate, Today

"I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work."

Time, Work, Fame, Nothing

"There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday."

Talk, Yesterday

"I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that."

Politics, Artist, Songs, Want

"I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like."

Music, Fame

"I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it."

Music, Gentleman, Publishing

"When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style."

People, Style, Writing

"When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs."

Interest, Songs, Writing

"I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days."

Birthday, People, College, Remembrance