Careers Quotes - Page 61

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

I wanted to do a summary of my life and career. There’s been so many different looks, and so many types of songs that have become iconic, so it was just kind of fun to look back on everything

Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

I've been involved with Berlei for almost my whole career. I actually discovered them well over 10 years ago, probably 2002 at least. My mom introduced me. She said, "Listen, you should try these bras." And I was like, "Really?" So I tried it and since then I've never worn another bra.

When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

I feel it's such a tragic thing [Kurt Cobain's suicide]. Here is a guy, a young guy, that had everything in his hands. He could have had a great life. He had a wife, he had a child, he had a fantastic career. He was important to a generation. And for him to do that - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong.

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

I only want to make movies I want to see. That may mean my career is somewhat limited, but that is my version of integrity. No matter how it performs or how it's received, I can be okay with it.

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations.

I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twistsand turns of an artistic career. Throwing an opera at them is something they have to notice. There's nothing subtle about it.

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

Wisconsin is very proud of the career and technical college system that we have back home.

Early in my career, I had no consistency. Now I'm the most consistent player on the tour. It feels pretty good.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

A lot of my students have been quite notable. Notable in both the personal sense - people who have changed my life - and notable in that many have gone on to enormous success in their writing careers. Whether or not I had a lot to do with those success stories, I'm very proud and happy for my former students getting on the map.