Career Quotes

We've been following Judge Alito's career over the last 15 years, while he's been on the Court of Appeals.

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'

It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.

To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.

I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.

I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

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 my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'

I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.

I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.

I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.

I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don't have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.