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Career Quotes
"A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality of his dinner at night. Whatever be your calling, and however much it brings you in the year, you could still, you know, get more by cheating. We all suffer ourselves to be too much concerned about a little poverty; but such considerations should not move us in the choice of that which is to be the business and justification of so great a portion of our lives; and like the missionary, the patriot, or the philosopher, we should all choose that poor and brave career in which we can do the most and best for mankind."
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"I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct."
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"Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career."
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"I had never considered that you might miss a job like you missed a limb - a constant, reflexive thing. I hadn't thought as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning than you were rudely shocked in to consciousness by the alarm. That you might missed the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them."
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"After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals."
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"I hadn't thought that as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning then when you were rudely shocked into consciousness by the alarm. That you might miss the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them. Or even that you might find yourself searching for familiar faces as you walked the high street."
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"We want to christen every city that Kris has played in during his professional career."
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"I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment."
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"If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics."
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"When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues."
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"In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career."
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"I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do."
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"The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them."
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"I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to."
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"I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge."
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"If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career."
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"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."
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"Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs."
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"I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice."
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"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."
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"They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before."
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"We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel". Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor"."
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"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy."
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"No decent career was ever founded on a public."
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"You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career."
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"Eric Schmid explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job-fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters, He told me, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket sip, you don't ask what seat. You just get on."
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"I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbors. There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogie in the parish too."
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"Around New York, our group had become known as 'Dee Dee and her girls' because we were used on everything, so going out on a solo career wasn't as much a big deal to me."
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"There's only one job in this world that gives you an office in the sky, and that is pilot."
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"We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become "teachers and learners" at the end of it all! By the "learning career", we know what other people know; by the "teaching career", we make other people to know what we know!"
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"There's supposed to be more value in your life than spending more than sixty hours in a week in a place you don't care about and in an environment they don't care about you."
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"Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn."
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"You don't even have to love your job, you can merely love what your job does for you - the confidence and self-fulfillment that come with doing and earning."
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"Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession " think of earningfor life too."
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"This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money."
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"Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts."
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