Careers Quotes - Page 16

I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

I'm so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I've been told I have no talent, I can't sing and I'm a one-hit wonder.

Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

You can't model for the rest of your life, so it is important to diversify your career.

I remember my second game for England - we lost 2-0 to Norway, I was subbed and didn't do myself justice and I thought that was the end of my England career.

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.

If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.

I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

A little integrity is better than any career.

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

Maybe that's what I've based my career on: getting up earlier than everyone else so I get an extra couple of hours.

If you don’t take control of your career, guess what? You’ll be stuck in the sunset watching the sunrise, I am thesunrise.

You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.

Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career.

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

I had no support, no opportunity, no sponsors backing me for most of my career.

When I came to Harvard, there were no tenured women except one, who was in a chair reserved for a woman. It's still an uphill battle, and I encountered great sexism in parts of my career, but I have to say that things are a lot better than they used to be. There are many women today doing wonderful work all over the academy.

I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.