Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grace Paley

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

Grant Bowler

I've been very fortunate in my career to work across a lot of different mediums. I've hosted, I've narrated, I've acted in television, miniseries, film - all of which are very, very different in the way they tell stories.

Gene Hackman

You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.

Jessica Valenti

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

Jessica Simpson

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.

Jerry Buss

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

Jenna Ushkowitz

I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, it sort of chose me more than I chose it.

Jennie Finch

This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.

Jennifer Aniston

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

Jessica Sanchez

I always had an idea for what I wanted to do in the future and throughout my career. This wasn't, like, me figuring out what to do after Idol. I've always known the steps in what I had to do to get where I was.

Jessica Savitch

How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.

Jessica Savitch

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Alison Moyet

I chose not to work. It was one of those sticky things that happen in people's careers when you have been around for a long time.

Howard Stern

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

Ian Ziering

I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

Ice Cube

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

Ice Cube

I figured, when I make a movie, especially earlier in my career, one thing I was going to make sure was that the movie doesn't cost a lot and that it has potential to make a lot of money. That's how you get respect in Hollywood.

Ice Cube

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

Ian Hart

I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.

Hugh Howey

Living frugally is one of the best things an author can do to prepare for their career.

Hugh Jackman

My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.

Matt Hasselbeck

He's meant a lot to us, in our careers and as a friend. It looked like he was having a lot of fun. If he does choose to go out that way, it's a great way to go out.

Eric Cantona

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.

Eric Cantona

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

Enya

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

Enrique Iglesias

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

Emily Watson

In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.

Elvis Costello

Well, T Bone's had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his time between recording and producing when we first met, and touring. We toured together and we were great friends.

Jason Wu

Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.

Jason Mraz

I still go through stages of wanting to try other trades. When I was young I thought I'd be a magician. And then a cartoonist. Or a professional roller-skater. But there wasn't much support for those on career day.

Hillary Clinton

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

No decent career was ever founded on a public.