Career Quotes

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.

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

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.

If these are the last 34 games of my NBA career, I want them played as tough as I can.

My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'

Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!

I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.

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

And my life for the first - you know, when I was in my 20s and 30s, I had my career, and I traveled the world, I lived out of a suitcase. I stayed up until dawn. I did all of those things that were very exciting.

I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York.

Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.

A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

You want the best for your kid, but everybody's career is completely different in this industry.

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.

With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.

I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.