Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dionne Warwick

People have been so supportive of this career for so long, and they are still enjoying the music that I bring to them.

Dick Trickle

I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I've turned it into somewhat of a hobby.

Abdul Kalam

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

John Schneider

When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.

James Roday

Leonardo Dicaprio didn't change his name, Emilio Estevez didn't change his name. But every case is different. I only have one reference of what my career was and I was very, very blessed and very, very lucky, and it got started very quickly after college. And I only know that by going with Roday.

Many people take career tests with the hope that someone can definitely tell them who they are and what they should do. No test can do that. I recommend that people use the results of their career interest tests to stimulate their own ideas about possible occupations.

Many students see the importance of the minor, and even a major in Spanish for personal pleasure, for interest in new careers and for enhancement of their own careers.

Senior Day is unique. It's always tough for a lot of reasons. It's hard for them to know that it's their last to play at home. The reality of the season starts to sink in. There are no more games left. But some of them come out and have career performances. I just hope we're ready.

Alphonso Jackson

So I've had a very vast career. And one of the things I think is so phenomenal about my career is I've had a lot of experiences.

She started laughing at me. She said lobbyists have whole careers and never pass anything and, do you know how hard it is to get something like this done? That's when I started feeling the pressure.

She's such a great kid, and I'm really hoping she'll be able to play in the CAA Tournament. She's had such a great career and we've won all these games. As a senior, you always want to see a kid finish in the championship tournament.

She was very good as a freshman, and then the latter part of her career her golf took a turn for the worse. But she told me that when she graduated that she wouldn't have changed a thing because it helped her develop into the person that she was.

She was great. What a game to end your career on. She was unbelievable.

She went to Geneva? You know what, we didn't discuss it. She's been at Montini for two years and feels at home. She's had a pretty good career here in two years, (and) I'm glad she's here.

She's a senior and she deserves a chance to show us what she can do... She's been waiting her whole hockey career to play in a game like this.

She's had a marvelous career for us. She's been a leader, even as a sophomore, she was mature and able to get her teammates to pick up their game. She has made a lot of strides to improve her game and it has paid off for her and her future.

She's on track to have a really good career as a shot putter. She should be able to make the finals, and fifth or sixth place is not out of the question for her.

John Mortimer

She's certainly not a flash in the pan. She was highly recruited out of high school and went on to have a fantastic career at Kansas State, where she was a 12-time All-American.

Chris Robinson

I'm the weirdo. There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, that's not gonna make me happy.

Barack Obama

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Nathaniel Branden

Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.

Frances McDormand

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

Frances McDormand

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

Chad Michael Murray

I want to get to a point in my career where I can be a role model. A good one. I want to say, 'I got here without drugs, and I got here without drinking or smoking. If I can do it, you can do it. I have no doubt.' I really want kids to have a chance in life.

Niecy Nash

There are a lot of actors who don't like reality stars 'cause they feel these people aren't accomplished. They haven't done this or that, but they are savvy. They have found a way to make it work. I could dissect your career all day long, but I'm focused on my own career.

Nico Rosberg

It's very, very special for me. This is where I've grown up, it's my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix is the highlight of any racing driver's career and for me a childhood dream. It being my home makes it all the more special, unbelievable.

Lee Norris

I've just grown up a lot and started to encounter some of the big decisions of life in terms of what career I wanted to do and figuring out personal relationships and things.

Neil Tennant

They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We are happy that Gerald will continue his career and development with the Charlotte Bobcats. He is a quality young man and has considerable upside,

Paulo Coelho

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

Bonnie Langford

It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.

My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I think he'd have been pleased if I'd made a career of working in the shoe store. But my mother was ambitious. She encouraged us to read books, and she pushed us toward a musical education.

Alan Arkin

You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.