Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Menand

I do worry a lot about the time it takes for people to get a PhD, about the difficulty of finding employment, about the difficulty of getting tenure, and generally about the perception that undergraduates have, that this is a very high-risk career to get started.

Louis Pasteur

whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

Lupita Nyong'o

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.

Luis Miguel

The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live.

Luis Valdez

When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you're not really doing it for yourself.

These are incredibly talented people who do wonderful work and enter careers that are not high-paying, ... Even members of the great symphony orchestras don't make a lot of money.

Gordon Taylor

These individuals have all shown outstanding team work and determination during their professional careers - I know they are dedicated to making the PFA Borneo Cup 2006 a huge success, by ensuring that their teams complete the challenge and raise the funds to provide life-altering equipment for the beneficiaries of Children Today.

Andrew Luck

It's hard not to follow other careers of NFL quarterbacks in the 24/7 news-at-your-fingertips society we live in.

Stephen Lang

I wouldn't say 'Avatar' changed my life, but it definitely changed my career.

Stephen Malkmus

My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's not an alpha male situation, George Oppen. It's quiet. It's poetry.He just lived a life of an intellectual poet.

Ellen Ochoa

I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they’re passionate about, something that’s challenging and worthwhile.

Scott Adams

It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.

Ray Romano

I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.

Rashida Jones

The minute you feel like there's nothing left to learn, whether it's with your career or life, you're done.

Randy Travis

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

Randy Harrison

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

Randy Harrison

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

Thomas Jefferson

We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.

Tamsin Egerton

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

Ron Fournier

AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

You need to have a life outside your career.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

Sophie Swetchine

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

Tea Leoni

People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show

Taylor Lautner

Some of the actors that I love most have challenged themselves throughout their entire career. That's my goal.

Stacy Keibler

I'm very career-driven, so my focus and my energy has been into that.

Stephen Amell

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

Stephen Baldwin

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

Tim Brown

For me certainly Earl Campbell and Tony Dorsett come to mind, and Roger Staubach. I've grown up here in Dallas watching Roger and his playing career and to be in the same fraternity as Roger Staubach is/was a huge deal for me.

Tim Cahill

A lot of the physical flirtation with fear I did early on in my career, when I was a much younger person - stuff I wouldn't do now. But I was very interested in the mechanics of risk and fear in those days. And I found out fear pretty much always feels the same, whether it's doing a rock climb or speaking in front of an audience.

William Gibson

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.

Sarah Silverman

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

Sarah Palin

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.