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Career Quotes


"If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn."


"But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much."


"I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald."


"I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency."


"Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?"


"Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals."


"In business as well as in everything else, you're in business to spread love. Your agency should spread love, your screenplay should spread love, your store should spread love, your life should spread love. The key to a successful career is realizing that it s not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self and your most basic self is love."


"At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends."


"Travis Sanchez rubbed a hand over his head as he stepped into an elevator at the Red Stone Security building. His Mohawk was gone and he wore his hair in a buzz cut these days. It was probably his military background, but he always came back to this cut out of habit. The walk to Harrison's office was too short. He wasn't sure why his boss had called him in after his last security detail, but a small burst of panic had detonated in his gut. He loved this job, but there had been some issues with the CEO he'd recently been guarding not following Travis' orders. The asshole had almost gotten himself killed and now Travis wondered if his head was on the chopping block because of it."


"Of course the Munich tragedy was the biggest event in my career and the most terrible."


"The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia."


"I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted."


"I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it."


"This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at."


"All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly."


"I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure."


"We've been through about a million different line-ups throughout our career."


"Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times."


"If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all."


"I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I'm still hoping though."


"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."


"Follow your passion, not the money. The money will follow you."


"What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark."


"The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck."


"As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with."


"It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen."


"On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy."


"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out."


"I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career."


"When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career."
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