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Career Quotes
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
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"I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career."
107
"I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States."
95
"This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career."
90
"I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career."
62
"Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others."
60
"I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39."
55
"I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all."
48
"My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career."
47
"I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service."
47
"This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail."
47
"I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone."
47
"The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to."
45
"I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career."
45
"I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else."
45
"Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap."
44
"It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career."
42
"I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way."
42
"Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them."
42
"About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient."
42
"The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them."
41
"My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing."
41
"I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children."
40
"I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me."
40
"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."
40
"I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not."
40
"This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too."
39
"I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while."
39
"I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now."
39
"And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy."
39
"An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering."
38
"Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson."
38
"I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out."
38
"My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments."
38
"If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them."
37
"I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me."
37
"At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles."
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