“It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an incident involving some combination of sex, drugs, drink, violence and the constabulary. But modern footballers have a lot of both money and disposable time, a combination that has proved a recipe for personal disaster throughout history. And these incidents take place generally round night clubs rather than football clubs. The average Premiership player who turned up for work drunk would have a career-expectancy measurable in minutes.” HappensNightSexCareersPlayerViolenceModernMinutesFootballDrinkDrugRoundsAverageClubsComplainingDisasterDrunkSoccerCombinationAnalysisExcessRecipesIncidentsInvolvingFootballerDisposableColumnistsExpectancyFootball ClubsNight ClubSex Drugs Author:Matthew Engel
“What happened in the United changing room has happened to me 50 times in my career. I have kicked bottles of mineral water, bags and shoes but I never hit a player. It's a question of technique, and the Scots must have a better technique.” WaterUnitedRoomsCareersPlayerHappenedFootballShoesTechniqueManagersSoccerBagsBottlesChairmanMineralsScotsMineral Water Author:Marcello Lippi
“Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing left-back? Four? I would love to sleep that long. If you want a really long career you have to find a way of switching off. I do it when I'm out walking my dog, Alex Ferguson got into horses, others get into wine. Some players like going shopping, which is not my scene. A lot of them turn to golf. I tried it, didn't like it. I have to walk. If I couldn't I'd be in a padded cell by now.” IfsWayWantShouldLongTurnsLeftSleepWalksWonderCareersMorningFourPlayerDogFootballWalkingSceneHorseWake UpWineGolfCellsManagersSoccerShoppingMy DogChairmanAlexReally LongSwitchingFergusonLong CareersSwitching Off Author:Roy Keane
“I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsKindSportsCareersSeasonsMonstersDiminish Author:Brady Anderson
“Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.” WellsI CanAbleSportsCareersGreat ThingsHopefully Author:Latrell Sprewell
“The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.” ThinkingKnowsWantFirstsYoungGuyGamesSportsCareersTeamSticksYoung Guys Author:Mario Lemieux
“The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.” SportsCareersHappenedTragedyRuined Author:Rafael Palmeiro
“I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here.” WinningFunSportsCareersPlayerStageRight NowDevelopingHaving FunVoid Author:Rick Pitino
“A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.” PeopleHardSportsCareersHard WorkHonorValidation Author:Ryne Sandberg
“I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career.” ThinkingHelpingGuyStrongSportsCareersDefenseCoachesExcellentCoachingConsistentStaffOffenseOutstandingAssistants Author:Steve Spurrier
“... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally Godless, born in the same atmosphere of utter disregard for the foundational virtues of humility and charity. This hostile twin brother of Capitalism was destined to be called Communism, and is today setting out to murder its elder.” TodayPoliticsBornCareersEconomyVirtueHumilityBrotherCapitalismMurderCharityGreedSettingSettingsCommunismAtmosphereLiberalismExcessTwinsHostileDestinedEldersPursuedDisregardProvokedTwin Brother Author:Hilaire Belloc
“The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because such a career contains the elements of self-destruction. Democracy in government, brotherhood in society, equality in rights and privileges, and universal education, foreshadow the next higher plane of society to which experience, intelligence and knowledge are steadily tending.” EndsSelfWisdomGovernmentNextPoliticsCareersEconomyDemocracyRightsHigherElementsFairsDestructionUniversalAimPropertyPrivilegePlanesLiberalismBrotherhoodSelf DestructionDissolutionTerminationRights And PrivilegesUniversal Education Book:The Indian Journals, 1859-62 Source: The Indian Journals, 1859-62
“My biggest concern is always the students who are working toward a certain career - when they limit themselves to just that one option. They need to know that the world is huge - it's an ocean, and there are so many options. It's not the end of the world if they don't get to pursue an apparent childhood dream.” IfsKnowsWorldNeedsEndsDreamCertainCareersChildhoodStudentsHugeLimitsOceanConcernPursueEnd Of The WorldChildhood Dreams Author:Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
“I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is completely death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work. So there was an inherent challenge in trying to keep it fresh, because it's something that I'm familiar with, but the real draw for me was at long last to work with Halle. She and I had come close to working on two other films together prior to this one that unfortunately had fallen apart for various reasons.” IfsMenTryingYearsLongMadeTwoRealReasonShowsTogetherLastsFilmActorsChallengesCareersOne ThingDrawsVariousFamiliarBoredFallenBoredomCopInherentUniformsSeventeen Author:Benjamin Bratt
“'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.” AbleCareers Author:Bo Derek
“When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.” YearsCareersStonesDylanKink Author:Bob Geldof
“I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn't reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn't reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career.” IfsStillsGoalCareersImpossibleFieldsParticularGood TimesExplorationSatisfyingHaving A Good Time Author:Duane G. Carey
“I knew early in life that I wanted a show business career.” ShowsWantedCareersShow Business Author:Irene Cara
“If something isn't working out in one aspect of my career, it's not any big neurotic, crazy phase for me, it's just something that I accept, and that's okay. I'm not going to keep banging my head against the wall.” IfsBigsAcceptingCareersCrazyWallAspectOkayWork OutPhasesNeuroticBanging Author:Irene Cara
“Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.” AbleOpportunityCareersPaintingPursuePainterAnother Opportunity Author:Tony Curtis
“So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.” DonePlayWould BeSongNextCareersTheaterMusicalBrandsBrand NewProfessional CareerPantomimeIbsen Author:Trevor Nunn
“You know what happens to guys? There's what I call the individual time of their career, and the team time of their career. This is the team time. You don't care about all the other stuff. You just want to live in one place, and watch your kids grow up and go to the same school. You say, 'Hey, maybe I'd better play well and be a good enough guy that they keep me.'” KnowsWantWellsEnoughPlayHappensCareKidsSchoolGuyIndividualGrowsStuffCareersWatchesGrowing UpTeamDon't CareHeyGood EnoughNhl Author:Mike Babcock
“It's not my fault Snow didn't have any other options coming out of high school. If going to college gets you a career backup goaltender job, and my route gets you a thousand points and a thousand games, and compare the two contracts, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out whose decision was better.” IfsTwoSchoolJobsGamesDecisionCareersFiguresCollegeThousandHigh SchoolScientistFaultsSnowCompareContractsComing OutRoutesRocketsNhlBackupGoing To College Author:Jeremy Roenick
“It had been a great career. I mean, how many guys can say they averaged two points a game in their careers? It's too bad he's retiring too soon. The league is going to miss him. The fans are going to miss him. A real classy person and a great guy.” MeanPersonsTwoRealGuyGamesCareersFansMissingLeagueRetiringNhlGreat Guy Author:Johnny Bucyk
“I'm not planning a career change - not unless they need someone who constantly falls on the ice and is out of breath all the time.” NeedsFallCareersBreathsPlanningIceNhlCareer Change Author:Scott Wolf
“Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.” MadeChristianReligiousMy OwnCareersAtheismEffectsFiguresNotionPositive AtheismBackgroundsIllegalRidiculeAghast Author:Rowan Atkinson
“In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that you don't have much energy to meditate - unless you use work in a tantric way.” PeopleWayUseProblemSuccessEnergyCareersBuddhismTiredWestTime And EnergyTired Of Working Author:Frederick Lenz
“Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work.” SelfSuccessLevelsAttentionCareersPracticeBuddhismSelf Control Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you meditate you will be able to find new ways to utilize your career and the routines of daily life.” IfsWayAbleCareersBuddhismDaily LifeNew Ways Author:Frederick Lenz
“Combine meditation with career as a yoga. You will find that your practice will not be any less powerful than a person who lives in a monastery. You might even excel because practice in a monastery can get very one-sided.” PersonsMightSuccessPowerfulCareersPracticeMeditationBuddhismYogaMonasteriesOne Sided Author:Frederick Lenz
“Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career.” ThinkingImportantSuccessNextCareersMeditationBuddhismDevelopment Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda. Approach your career from this standpoint and you will have a very different career. You will be successful.” IfsImportantIdeasDifferentSuccessCareersSuccessfulBuddhismApproachEnlightenmentBeing SuccessfulAgendasStandpointSuccessful Career Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is necessary to be focused. This is the raison d'etre of career.” SuccessCareersBuddhismFocusedRaison D'etre Author:Frederick Lenz
“To assume that wealth or sexuality or the usage of power, any of these things are not void in nature, gives them a reality they don't actually have.” GivingRealitySuccessWealthCareersBuddhismAssumingSexualityVoidUsage Author:Frederick Lenz
“One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular notion that those who seek enlightenment should abandon the things of this world.” PeopleWorldShouldSelfSuccessMistakeCareersThis WorldBuddhismEnlightenmentDiscoveryNotionSelf DiscoveryPursueAbandonNeglect Author:Frederick Lenz
“I meet people who neglect career. Their lives aren't centered at all. They don't have much money. They have this spaced-out look in their eyes. Their chances for enlightenment are very small, unless they change the way they live.” PeopleWayLooksEyeSuccessChanceCareersBuddhismEnlightenmentNeglect Author:Frederick Lenz
“We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is set up. If you are not competitive, you do not succeed, you do not survive.” IfsWholeSuccessCareersPlanetsBuddhismSucceedRidiculous Author:Frederick Lenz
“Money equals the ability to be mobile in this word, to travel, to live in a place that is suitable, to not be brought down or drained, to not to be a victim.” SuccessAbilityCareersBuddhismVictimMobileSuitableDrained Author:Frederick Lenz
“Money is very useful in this particular world to buy you space. In the old days, there were not too many people on the planet. Today everybody owns the forests and woods and there are "No Trespassing" signs everywhere.” PeopleWorldTodaySuccessSpaceCareersParticularPlanetsBuddhismWoodsForestsOld DaysTrespassing Author:Frederick Lenz
“The earth is not the same everywhere. Certain powers are available in one part of the earth that are not available in another part. The rich realize this. They live in these places and they use that power to stay rich.” UseEarthSuccessCertainRealizingCareersRichBuddhismAvailable Author:Frederick Lenz
“Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich figured out a long time ago that certain neighborhoods have more power.” LongSuccessCertainCareersRichBuddhismHighestLong TimeExpensiveNeighborhoodDomainLong Time Ago Author:Frederick Lenz
“Without money, you are powerless in this world. You are totally subject to whatever happens. To be without money in the physical world is to be powerless.” WorldHappensSuccessCareersSubjectsThis WorldBuddhismPowerlessWhatever Happens Author:Frederick Lenz
“The way our world is set up, a higher economic priority is given to things that bespeak a greater refinement. It is just a determination that was made, to make money.” WorldWayMadeSuccessGivenCareersGreaterEconomicBuddhismHigherDeterminationPrioritiesMaking MoneyOur WorldRefinement Author:Frederick Lenz
“When you visit the Zen Monasteries, one of the first things required is that you bring a donation. They have to pay for those monasteries. The upkeep is fantastic. The monks have to be fed, and so on.” FirstsSuccessPayCareersBuddhismFantasticFedsMonkDonationMonasteriesUpkeep Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's very important for the coming times to have a sound economic base and to be as mobile as possible. The energy lines will be shifting strongly as we enter into the end phase of the earth's cycle.” ImportantEndsEarthSuccessEnergySoundLinesCareersEconomicBuddhismCyclesPhasesShiftingMobile Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you can marry a handsome man or a beautiful woman and you have two choices and both people are equally nice or obnoxious, you might as well marry the wealthy one.” PeopleIfsMenWellsTwoMightBeautifulSuccessChoicesCareersNiceBuddhismWealthyHandsomeBeautiful WomenObnoxiousTwo ChoicesHandsome Men Author:Frederick Lenz
“Economics is important because it's possible to buy the places that are necessary to live in relative inaccessibility and seclusion, or to move with a bit of style and chicness into the middle of civilization.” ImportantMovingSuccessBitsCareersMiddleStyleBuddhismCivilizationEconomicsRelativeSeclusion Author:Frederick Lenz
“Many people spend their life always worrying about whether they have enough to cover expenses. They experience unhappiness.” PeopleEnoughSuccessCareersWorryBuddhismUnhappinessExpensesAlways Worrying Author:Frederick Lenz
“The obvious answer to money is to have tons of it - simply figure out how to make more money than you really need and go for it.” NeedsSuccessAnswersCareersFiguresBuddhismObviousMore Money Author:Frederick Lenz