career quotes

“I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater. ”

“I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged. ”

“It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes. ”

“One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.”

— Kim Kardashian

“That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.”

— Stephen King

“My so-called career is a haphazard thing.”

— Paul McCartney

“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.”

— Steve Martin

“I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.”

— Steve Martin

“Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.”

— Barack Obama

“I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.”

— Marilyn Manson

“And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.”

— Michelle Obama

“A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.”

— Dolly Parton

“I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.”

— Dolly Parton

“I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.”

— Mitt Romney

“Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.”

— Mitt Romney

“Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.”

“No decent career was ever founded on a public.”

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.”

— Richard Dawkins

“You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.”

— Jon Stewart

“I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.”

— Jon Stewart

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

— Michael Jordan

“Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.”

— Michael Jordan

“The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.”

— George Harrison

“I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.”

“I was never into the boy crazy thing because I was very focused on my career. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.”

— Barack Obama

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