Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deepak Chopra

In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Debbie Macomber

Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.

Dean Norris

Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don't know whether we'll get back to some movies or not.

Deborah Bull

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

Amber Tamblyn

I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.

Amber Tamblyn

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

Anthony LaPaglia

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

Anthony Mackie

I work out every day just to keep in shape. I feel like I never want to get stuck in a position where when you need somebody with great arms, you call Anthony Mackie. That hasn't been the calling card for my career, and nor do I want it to be.

Cindy Margolis

I made my career off posing in swimsuits and doing all the swimsuit issues and posters.

Cicely Tyson

I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as a platform to address the issues of the race I was born into.

Chuck Norris

My whole goal in my film career is to project a positive image on the screen, that I hope people will enjoy watching.

Amitabh Bachchan

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Anthony Bourdain

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

Anthony Bourdain

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.

I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to walk in here with approximately 90 seconds of experience and start telling the people who have made their careers here what the important issues are.

Bruce Gradkowski

I think it ends the season right. Our careers here at Toledo as seniors, it is icing on the cake. This is our championship and it feels great.

Sharon Stone

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

Whatever code of conduct they choose, the importance of ensuring an office romance doesn't cause conflict or have a negative impact on their employees' careers is paramount.

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

We made sure we sent our seniors off with a win. It was real important to win it for them. Some of them might pursue their careers in the NFL. Some of them might not. We just wanted to get them a memory before they left the Orange Bowl.

If we are going to have to work until 70, we are all going to have to reinvent our careers at least once.

Richard Brown

I would encourage other universities where students don't have some of the necessary social skills to think how their careers service might help them.

Ben Schnetzer

When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I really admire and whose work I really admire were English and English trained. I felt there was a real vocational feel to work in the U.K.

Meryl Streep

There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever.

Al Gini

We're talking here about what we do in our careers and how we protect each other,

John Malkovich

I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can.

We owe our seniors a great deal of gratitude. They have done a great job for us and I hope that people turn out to acknowledge the careers they have had.

Ram Dass

My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

Women are mainly mothers and have their own careers, so it's kind of hard to find someone who would be effective. They just can't drop their careers for something they won't be reimbursed for.

Margaret Atwood

The Orange prize has been pivotal in the careers of many women writers - it's given them that extra push, and that extra dollop of confidence.

We've certainly demonstrated that there are at least a core group of people who get elected to public office who will ... put their careers on the line to do what they think is right irrespective of what the shifting winds of popular opinion might be. And we are content to let history be the ultimate judges.

Sugata Mitra

Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time.