Careers Quotes - Page 21

People want their reason for living to be a singular thing, like a career or a relationship, because this makes an individual feel secure in the physical world. We don't fare well in the realm of the invisible - so telling someone that their purpose is multilayered and includes the arduous journey of discovering who they really are is not always the answer they want to hear. But consider the complexity of the question: "What is my reason for living?" How can that question not include a journey into the depths of your own life?

Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.’

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

Acting is my calling, not my career.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would've known what to do with me. If I hadn't done 'Beetlejuice,' I think I would've just gone back to my school.

Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mum.

Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.

All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.

Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.

I've never felt my gender was an obstacle. There have of course been moments in my career when it has slapped me in the face but the reason I felt it slapped me in the face was because it wasn't something that I had contemplated before.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

When people come up to me and say 'I hate you' or 'I love to hate you,' it's not the usual response that I thought I would've gotten halfway into my career. And then they say, 'I love your work.'

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.

This is the biggest night of my entire life and everybody's career rides on my DJ set

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

No matter how much silverware you win in your career you always want more.

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.

I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The writing of poetry is one thing. It's an obsession, the scratching of a divine itch, and has nothing to do with money. You can, however, make a career out of being a poet by teaching, traveling around, and giving lectures. It's a thin living at best.

Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness, and presence of the artist.

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

I really don't have no regrets. I think that where I am in the stage of my career and in my life made me who I am today.

This was the most emotional title of my career. I was the youngest champion, and now I'm the oldest.