Top careers Quotes Collection - Page 15

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Image of Ron Fournier
AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.
- Ron Fournier
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Image of Louis Menand
I do worry a lot about the time it takes for people to get a PhD, about the difficulty of finding employment, about the difficulty of getting tenure, and generally about the perception that undergraduates have, that this is a very high-risk career to get started.
- Louis Menand
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Image of Shakti Gawain
The disowned parts of ourselves are what get in the way of us having the relationships we long for, the careers we don't know how to create, and the goals we want to achieve. It is by getting in touch with ALL the parts of ourselves - by having a gentle dialogue with all the "selves" we have inside - that we integrate them into a more comfortable, peaceful way of being with ourselves.
- Shakti Gawain
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Image of Jodie Foster
People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.
- Jodie Foster
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Image of Charlotte Gainsbourg
I don't have a career plan. I've never done that. Things happen accidentally and I've been lucky.
- Charlotte Gainsbourg
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Image of Morgan Freeman
In my career? Me. I'm the boss. I'm the end all and be all. I'm the alpha and omega in that.
- Morgan Freeman
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Image of Jens Lekman
Family and friends always need to be bigger than your music career, and in that sense, your music will be bigger because you respect your family and your friends more.
- Jens Lekman
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Image of Gary Gulman
It was early on when I was really focused and obsessed with doing The Tonight Show and Letterman and stuff like that. Then, I quickly realized that those things don't make or break a career.
- Gary Gulman
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Image of Seth Godin
Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.
- Seth Godin
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Image of Ian Astbury
I wasn't pursuing a musical career or anything. It just happened and then it was there.
- Ian Astbury
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Image of Malcolm Gladwell
If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’.
- Malcolm Gladwell
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Image of Megan Fox
I'd really like to have a family at some point. Not that I'm not focused on my career - of course I am... And if a great project comes my way, then of course I'll take it. But I'm not actively out seeking something specific.
- Megan Fox
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Image of Duncan Jones
I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.
- Duncan Jones
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Image of Reid Hoffman
The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.
- Reid Hoffman
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Image of Goldie Hawn
So each time you do a shift in your life, right, or you do a change in your life, then sometimes it feels like it's not gonna happen. And your career is not gonna do well. And the next thing you know is that these choices that you make actually catapult you to the next level.
- Goldie Hawn
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Image of Kim Harrison
In a few hours, I’m going to be banished to the surface, my belongings raffled off as novelty items and my living space given to someone else—my reputation destroyed. I’d rather have your head than your soul at this point in my illustrious career.” - Al
- Kim Harrison
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Image of Anita Hill
I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career
- Anita Hill
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Image of Christopher Hitchens
[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.
- Christopher Hitchens
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Image of Grant Bowler
I've been very fortunate in my career to work across a lot of different mediums. I've hosted, I've narrated, I've acted in television, miniseries, film - all of which are very, very different in the way they tell stories.
- Grant Bowler
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Image of Anne Hathaway
My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.
- Anne Hathaway
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Image of Hal Holbrook
I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.
- Hal Holbrook
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Image of Tom Hanks
I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.
- Tom Hanks
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Image of Ed Helms
It's incredible how big a part of my acting career music has become. I get asked about it all the time, and I love it. It's one of my favorite things, and I'm so glad that I get to sort of work that in.
- Ed Helms
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Image of Ernie J Zelinski
Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.
- Ernie J Zelinski
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Image of Terrence Howard
I knew that one movie could either kill my career or give birth to it. It's the same thing with Nelson. If you fail at Nelson [movie about nelson Mandela], you don't get to comeback and say, 'Well, I was trying. Let me do it again.' There are no re-takes.
- Terrence Howard
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Image of Emilie Autumn
I've been using Steinberg's Cubase exclusively to record and mix my music since the very beginning of my career. It's no exaggeration to say that Cubase has been my partner in bringing my music and message to the world, and, now, they are helping to bring my story to the world as well, as I record the audiobook of my novel.
- Emilie Autumn
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Image of Bob Hope
Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.
- Bob Hope
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Image of Mariska Hargitay
The only reason I have the career I have is that I didn't quit.
- Mariska Hargitay
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Image of John Hodgman
My whole creative career is a product of the Internet. ...I'll take that back. To some degree. My fascination with cultural esoterica and trivia and so on was well-formed long before I got my first AOL account.
- John Hodgman
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Image of Alicia Keys
Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].
- Alicia Keys
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Image of Guy Kawasaki
Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little.
- Guy Kawasaki
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Image of Mindy Kaling
I would be the first to admit that I have incredibly high, ambitious standards for my life and my career, and I've had those my entire life. It's something that was just instilled in me by my parents.
- Mindy Kaling
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Image of Chris Jericho
My days of being a full time wrestler are over. Nothing wrong with that, that's just the general progression of your career and your life.
- Chris Jericho
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Image of Alan Keyes
The money we spend on education should follow the choice of the parents, not the choice of educrats, bureaucrats, politicians, who, unfortunately, have been manipulating this process in their own career interests, not in the interests of our young people.
- Alan Keyes
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Image of Thomas Keller
Larousse is an invaluable tool for any cook. I've used this great resource all throughout my cooking career, and of course I look forward to the new edition. New information and knowledge are always welcome.
- Thomas Keller
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Image of Dwayne Johnson
In my entire career, I've never cried, consistently, through a movie, ever.
- Dwayne Johnson
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Image of Aya Cash
As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.
- Aya Cash
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Image of Nicole Kidman
I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.
- Nicole Kidman
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Image of Rashida Jones
The minute you feel like there's nothing left to learn, whether it's with your career or life, you're done.
- Rashida Jones
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Image of Jeremy Irons
It's always useful to be in big movies for one's career.
- Jeremy Irons
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Image of Alicia Keys
Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.
- Alicia Keys
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Image of Alicia Keys
I thought I had to be perfect. I would often make choices I thought would make everyone else happy. I lived at a pace that was "good for my career," whether it was good for me or not. I have learned how important it is to check in with myself and listen, really listen.
- Alicia Keys
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Image of Anthony Jeselnik
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and do exactly what I wanted to do. That way I would never have to change for anybody.
- Anthony Jeselnik
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Image of George Brandis
I decided few years ago to leave the bar to pursue a career in politics because I wanted to make a contribution in Parliament.
- George Brandis
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Image of Arianna Huffington
At the moment, our society’s notion of success is largely composed of two parts: money and power. But it’s time for a third metric, beyond money and power - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder, and to give back.
- Arianna Huffington
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Image of Janet Jackson
It's very hard trying to have love and a career at the same time. For those who can, great, but I can't.
- Janet Jackson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Peter Jackson
To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the Lord of the Rings films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.
- Peter Jackson
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Image of Allen Iverson
God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career.
- Allen Iverson
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