Career Quotes

I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.

Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.

I can cite numerous sponsors at different places in my career that made a huge difference for me just in terms of pulling me aside and giving me a tip or some coaching, or just watching what I was doing and not being afraid to tell me the truth about it.

I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.

You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body.

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

My career is there for everyone to see and delve into.

I've had such an odd career.

I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.

I never pursued a career relentlessly.

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.

I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career.

There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.

Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

I've had a lazy career. Sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side.

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

My career choice was to be a mother.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.