Famous Quotes & Sayings

LeBron James

I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there.

Pharrell Williams

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.

Peter Drucker

Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'.

Peter Asher

Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.

Penelope Wilton

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

Peggy Noonan

The thing political figures fear most is a terror event that will ruin their careers. The biggest thing they fear is that a bomb goes off and it can be traced to something they did or didn't do, an action they did or didn't support. They all fear being accused of not doing enough to keep the citizenry safe.

Paulo Coelho

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Marnie Stern

It seems to me, that's the only thing that ends up being really fulfilling or satisfying - your career.

Marlene Dietrich

I never ever took my career seriously.

Mariska Hargitay

The only reason I have the career I have is that I didn't quit.

Marjane Satrapi

I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.

Maria Sharapova

I can't say I don't like acting, but I can't imagine a career when I have to spend 70 percent of my time in a trailer eating Snickers bars.

Maria Sharapova

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

Maria Sharapova

You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far, but it's not over yet.

Megan Gallagher

My career is very important and I'm pretty ambitious. Marriage is not a priority, not the focus of my existence. Of course, you don't plan something like that, do you? It always catches you by surprise.

Megan Fox

I'd really like to have a family at some point. Not that I'm not focused on my career - of course I am. And if a great project comes my way, then of course I'll take it. But I'm not actively out seeking something specific.

Megan Fox

I have no friends and I never leave my house. You just have to make a choice to just refuse to be involved with things that could get you in trouble. It's easy when you feel upset or depressed about something to want to go to a club and want to drink, but instead I just force myself to sit and feel it and deal with it, and try to grow from it, because I don't want to go down that path. I'm one of the most isolated people in existence right now, but it's worth it because if I wasn't making that decision I would be throwing away my career.

Max Irons

If you look at the careers of Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Paul Giamatti, Meryl Streep, none of them shot up in terms of fame or fortune or recognition, they laid a platform of good, solid work and became better and better.

Max Irons

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Max Irons

I want to have a career that lasts 60 years, not six.

Maureen Forrester

After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.

Maureen O'Hara

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

Matthew Lillard

I'm almost 40, so it's an awkward time in my career. You kind of hope it comes through and, if not, I'll be a waiter. Awesome.

Matt Ross

When people talk about careers, I always feel like the connotation of a career is that you're actually choosing things.

Marianne Williamson

It's funny, I see Wendy Kaminer herself as a kind of guru - a guru of the fashionably cynical set. Yet she uses the term "guru" to minimize my career, to marginalize my thoughts and to trivialize my work, as well as those of others.

Some surveyors live for the work, putting in weeks or months at a time in remote locations. With a young family and hobbies that I'm passionate about, that isn't the path I've chosen. Like in many careers, you need to make your own decisions and follow your own path.

Mark Lawrence

Those young women who want a career... They can have mine.

Michael Cera

I just want to be really careful with decisions I make. When you make a decision about your career, it changes your life in a really big way.

Michael Caine

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

Merv Griffin

As a mentalist, perhaps only Orson Wells was in Jason's league. After a career in television, Randal has my endorsement. He's simply the best I've ever seen!

Merlin Olsen

Sigma Chi was a learning experience for me in personal growth, in finding out more about myself, in shaping my life more effectively, and in directing my energies more efficiently. All of those things were heavily influenced by my Sigma Chi experience. There is no question that that has had a tremendous impact on my career, profesionally and on my life.

Mel Torme

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

Melanie Griffith

Oh, my career. What career? I'm over 40.