Career Quotes

I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

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

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

I'm not planning a career change - not unless they need someone who constantly falls on the ice and is out of breath all the time.

Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to say it over comes with time spent and wisdom gained in a music career.

I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh.

I've met very few professional land surveyors who regret their career path, and even fewer, who are out of work, even during economic slowdowns.

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

The first professional game that I ever played remains, to me, the most exciting moment of my professional career.

I miss my singing career very much.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.

What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.

Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

If you don't know what it is you're looking for you're NEVER going to find it. You have to be clear on what it is you're seeking.

When what you do and care about is aligned with what the market wants and cares about, you've created a recipe for career success.

I'm not a career woman.

So I just always drew. But never took that as a career path. I ended up in the computer business, and found myself as the vice president of sales and marketing for a computer accessories company.

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

My music career has been very rewarding, but success never came easily.

I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.

When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

If you're not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn't choose.

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.

A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.