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Career Quotes


"I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company."


"My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments."


"Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did."


"And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher."


"Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting."


"The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live."


"At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles."


"I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career."


"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."


"For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially."


"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."


"I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress."


"I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored."


"Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films."


"I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career."


"You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things."


"So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman."


"I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since."


"You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job."


"Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing."


"The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition."


"In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband."


"I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children."


"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."


"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."


"If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens."


"Taking risks, choosing growth, challenging ourselves, and asking for promotions (with smiles on our faces, of course) are all important elements of managing a career. One of my favorite quotes comes from author Alice Walker, who observed, "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."Do not wait for power to be offered. Like that tiara, it might never materialize. And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?"


"Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it."


"At this point, I'm spoiled. I've actually had a really blessed career."


"Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career."
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