Career Quotes

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.

My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

Listen, I'm 41 years old. I've got two kids. I've got a career. The last thing I need to be doing is having a beef with A Tribe Called Quest. It's silly and it was unnecessary. It ain't the first time that a director hasn't seen eye to eye with a subject and it ain't going to be the last time.

I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.

There's not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it's very fortunate and a blessing for me.

They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his future, and I am more reliant on other sources for my career.

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

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.