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Career Quotes
"The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish."
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"If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way."
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"I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice."
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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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"I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!"
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"I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting."
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"In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made."
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"Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia."
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"People who like their job will give it their best. Those who don't, show it by a poor performance."
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"I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens."
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"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
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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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"Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer."
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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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"No decent career was ever founded on a public."
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"Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine."
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"To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience."
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"More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio."
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"I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser."
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"Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs."
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"Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice."
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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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"The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them."
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"I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion."
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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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"Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth."
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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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"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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"Your job as a young adult is to become as valuable to the marketplace as you can. Your job as a human is to do so without working a day in your life."
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"Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession " think of earningfor life too."
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"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'd rather not look for a job... to let a fine one find me. And that definitely wouldn't define me as a snob!"
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"When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got."
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