“It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.” PeopleSelfBeliefActingCareersStageExampleGoes OnAffirmationBelief In SelfEnticing Author:Miranda Otto
“If somebody can create an absolute system of beliefs and rules of conduct that will guide a business man at eleven o'clock in the morning, a boy trying to select a career, a woman in an unhappy love affair--well then, surely no pragmatist will object. He insists only that philosophy shall come down to earth and be tried out there.” IfsMenTryingWellsPhilosophyEarthBeliefBoysCareersMorningObjectsAbsolutesAffairGuidesUnhappyClockSelectElevenLove AffairDown To EarthBusiness ManPragmatists Book:Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest
“a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful - what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives? - and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it...” MenWayYearsHas BeensDifferentWholeFactsRunningYoungCertainChoicesBeliefDifferencesCommonBehindsCareersFieldsUniqueConsciousMen And WomenMeaningfulChosenSuperiorsYoung ManMaking A DifferenceCrucialPercentagesImpetusCareers Choices Author:David Foster Wallace
“I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.” IfsWorldBelieveEnoughRealityBeliefPowerfulCareersThis WorldBasesMost PowerfulHave Faith Author:Corey Feldman
“The disassociation between inner belief and outer behaviour allowed many people to enjoy a sense of retaining their inner decency while at the same time not risking any loss of livelihood, any compromise over career ambitions, let alone any potentially more sanctions; hence never revealing any signs of disagreement or openly showing anything less than apparently full commitment to the regime and its policies” PeopleBeliefEnjoyLossCareersPolicyAmbitionCommitmentCompromiseRegimesBehaviourRevealingDecencyDisagreementSanctionsLivelihoodRetaining Author:Mary Fulbrook
“The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say -- or their beliefs -- or sex.” PeopleGivingFirstsWholeWantedBeliefSexCareersSacrificeGiving Up Author:John Osborne
“Despite my belief that somehow my work would get me where I wanted to be, there was still some kind of fathomless yearning. Yes, my career aspirations were always goading me. But partially, I think I tried to let those dreams replace or become the other yearning, to have that other form of value.” ThinkingKindStillsDreamWantedFormValuesBeliefCareersDespiteAspirationYearning Author:Cris Mazza