Career Quotes

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.

Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.

At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not like and a character I never anticipated doing.

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record.

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.

The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it.

I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.

'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.

I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.

Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.

I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

It's a time to reflect and appreciate all the contributions that others have made to my career and my life. My vision is nothing that hasn't been gleaned or understood from watching and working with so many people I admire before me.

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

One thing is having skated five of the best races I've probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody's career.

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.