Famous Quotes & Sayings

Today's college students realize the value in gaining real-world experience while they're still in school. The contacts they've made early in their careers will be useful in networking their way into jobs.

George Benson

I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.

Tom Glavine

If it happens, I'll be proud, and it would be a dream come true, though I doubt I ever thought I'd be a Hall of Famer when I started. It wasn't until late in my career that people started to mention it, and you start thinking about it a little bit.

Alia Shawkat

I'm not at the place in my career necessarily where I'm like offered every role.

Alexander Hanson

Im a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.

Adam Dunn

It's always been family first for me. No matter how well my career goes, nobody here will ask anything of me. I'm just another Dunn to them.

Adam Brody

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

Angus T. Jones

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

Angus T. Jones

What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.

Anita Baker

I need my career. That's what validates me.

Andy Grove

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

Amy Pascal

I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career.

Allen Iverson

God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career.

Alison Sweeney

Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.

Alicia Machado

I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.

Alicia Machado

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.

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.

Andrea Bocelli

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

Leila Janah

We have people from places like Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit. Sama plays a huge role in why people leave lucrative careers to join a social enterprise.

Keir Gilchrist

I guess Johnny Depp has a pretty good career. I love a lot of parts that actors have played, so I love pieces of their career, but it's pretty hard to look at an actor's whole career and go, 'That was awesome!' Usually it either ends on a crappy show or with no work at all.

Kamala Harris

I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.

Mika Brzezinski

I consider my girls the greatest gift from God in life. And I also love the career that I have built, lost and rebuilt. But the highs and lows of my career would not have been as exciting or manageable to me if I didn't have children and a partner for life with whom to share it all.

Damon Allen

Those are all the hidden stigmas they put on people early in their careers -- that you're a running quarterback,

My favourite place is at home with my family. My career is really raising my children. I'm still waiting for clarity on the future.

Emily Robison

I don't think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it's just kind of happened, and by nature of having worked with my sister - growing up with a sister who also plays, and being in communication with other female musicians.

Kailash Kher

Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.

Lucy Griffiths

Your personal life is something that's gonna last forever, and your career in stage, film, television, whatever, is not necessarily going to do that, so to keep the two separate's a very good thing.

Ricky Carmichael

We don't have long careers in this sport and I'm just trying to win as much as I can while I can.

We are really hoping he will be around next season. We are trying to deal with this part of his career and afterwards. We are trying to get a role that would satisfy both.

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Eve Ensler

I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.