Career Quotes

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

I love seeing the people that I have worked with reach new career heights.

The improv technique does one of two things. It either makes you raise your game, or retreat into a corner and decide to find a new career. But you do feel like you want to match and develop things.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.

I think anybody starting any new career needs work.

Every girl should have this-the little black book for career success!

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

I learn from everyone by observing traits that makes them successful and traits that bring them down, and try to incorporate only the best traits into my professional career.

The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God.

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.

I left my record label, Polydor, by mutual agreement, but I'm going to carry on with my singing career.

Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic.

Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's out of your control and it's awesome — and it's not a career path.

I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.

I don’t know what I’m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I’ll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I’ll think about a career path.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

I started acting, almost on a whim to help my music career.

I don't consider myself to be a media guy. It just happens to be that I've had opportunities in the media. I don't consider myself to be on a career path. I'm just a Christian and a Catholic priest.

I don't want to date celebrities, I don't want to roll out of clubs absolutely steaming, make an idiot out of myself. I want to concentrate on my music career.

I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career.

Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development!

The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.

I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging and unpredictable and adventurous - and very gratifying.

It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.

Career success is using your daily work, schoolwork, work in the world, work at home, as a way of advancing your mental state.

Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.

Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.

My success was also owed to career women who maybe had big legs or ample thighs, who felt well-protected by my fluid clothing that hid their flaws.

Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing.

Tom Hanks hits a new career peak. One of the best films of the year.

I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.

I don't get much career advice at all, and I would like some.

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.

Maybe I'll have something out by Christmas, maybe not. I don't know, I'm really trying to take my time and do what feels right. (about the next step in her music career)

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

When I thought my professional career was over, it hadn't even started yet.

I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.

Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.

You can’t work with people you hate and succeed. At least, you won’t get the optimum of what you would have obtained when you work with people you love.

If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack!

what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?