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“My driving career is low, but musically, it's all pretty high. It's a test of patience, takes forever, but I guess that's the nature of the thing of life. I'm glad to be living the musical life.”

Careers Forever Lows Tests Musical Driving Glad Musical Life

Author:Steve Kimock

“However, to be a coach I think you have to have a lot of patience. You have to understand what they have going on in their lives and it's a very rewarding career but you also need to know that your not going to get paid a ton of money and you have to be patient with people and a good listener.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Careers Paid Patient Coaches Listeners Be Patient Good Listener

Author:Robin Farina

“I tried something when my career was really struggling: reaching out to people, to filmmakers I wanted to work with. I genuinely wrote a letter to Clint Eastwood saying, "Hey man, I'm a fan and I would be an extra in your movie."”

People Men Would Be Wanted Careers Struggle Fans Letters Hey Filmmaker Extras Reaching Reach Out

Author:Josh Lucas

“You can make changes in your life and you can say, "I'm going to be a better parent next year than I am right now," or, "I'm going to take an extra step in my career and not just be satisfied where I am." So it has a lot to do with our will, but also we have to work as well.”

Years Wells Next Parent Steps Careers Right Now Satisfied Extras Making Changes Next Year

Author:Joel Osteen

“I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.”

Thinking Want I Can Careers

Author:Audrey Tautou

“I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.”

Thinking Looks Hard Fighting Careers Defined Seconds High Points

Author:Mike Tyson

“I think people are people and, if their feelings are truthful, they can connect. It doesn't matter if you're an aging, 50-something wrestler at the end of his career, or an ambitious, 20-something ballet dancer.”

People Ifs Thinking Ends Matter Feelings Careers Aging Dancer Ballet Ambitious Truthful Wrestler Ballet Dancer

Author:Darren Aronofsky

“Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in a section of town that isn't conducive to violence.”

Book Careers Support Violence Towns Cooks Educate Sections

Author:Chris Rock

“Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this."”

Ifs Thinking Said Careers Sticks Thanks

Book:Conversations with Ian McEwan

Source: Conversations with Ian McEwan

“Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!”

World Needs Giving Sports Loses Chance Half Careers Wonderful Drama Hundred Shoes Champion Repeats Interviews Destroying Fifteen Lap Gracious World Champions Jenny

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.”

Heart Acting Careers Wise My Heart

Author:Rashida Jones

“I guess I will probably produce a little bit more. For me it's a career, you create as you go along and you can't worry about always being on top.”

Littles Bits Careers Worry Produce Little Bit

Author:Josh Hartnett

“By the same token, frozen dinners, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, and an illegal immigrant hired to clean the house and take one's cat to the vet would have seemed like the epitome of materialism in another time, but now provide the only means available for two-career couples to work hard enough at their jobs to earn the salaries they need to pay for those labor-saving amenities.”

“I love it all. I don't want to go through my career with one hand tied behind my back. I love making kids happy. I love the midnight audience. I like intense dramas. And I like high-adrenaline action films.”

Want Hands Kids Action Film Behinds Careers Audience Drama Intense Tied Midnight Adrenaline Love Making Action Films Behind My Back Hands Tied

Author:Nicolas Cage

“I find many women are intimidated by "career women"! Bottom line: snap judgments about what you think others' perceptions might be about you, personally or professionally, can be more dangerous or damaging to you than those who are uncomfortable with your stature or your smarts. If you are smart and focused on your career, remind yourself that no one can ever take away your drive and your passion.”

Ifs Thinking Might Passion Lines Careers Dangerous Judgment Perception Smart Bottom Focused Uncomfortable Bottom Line Snaps Intimidated Stature Career Women Snap Judgment

Author:Jenna Lee

“After Princess Diaries, I was labeled a good girl, and for the first eight years of my career I had to fight to get any other kind of role. But I like fighting for a job, actually. Once you get it, you feel like you've emerged victorious from the scrap and you're like, "OK, this one's mine. Did it. Done."”

Feels Years Firsts Kind Done Jobs Girl Fighting Careers Roles Mines Like You Eight Princess Diaries Scrap Good Girl Princess Diaries

Author:Anne Hathaway

“I don't know if I'm all that famous. When I first started my idea of what a career in fashion would look like is very different to the reality now.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Looks Ideas Different Reality Careers Fashion

Author:Karen Walker

“There are a lot of things about my career now that are as I imagined, hoped for and worked towards.”

Careers

Author:Karen Walker

“Fans have been very important in my career. Even though I'm just doing me and doing my thing, they're the captains of this ship.”

Has Beens Important Careers Fans Ships Captains Doing Me Just Doing Me

Author:Prince Royce

“I do get away maybe a little bit more than most coaches do, but that seems to have worked for me in my coaching career. I recommended the way not to get burned out from your job is to have some hobbies and get away from it when you can.”

Way Littles Seems Jobs Bits Careers Little Bit Coaches Coaching Get Away Burned Hobbies Burned Out

Author:Steve Spurrier

“I look at my career and how I'm doing it now. I feel like there is something authentic in that process that I still try not to over manipulate. When I feel something, I try to listen to that.”

Feels Trying Looks Stills Process Careers Manipulate

Author:Charlize Theron

“I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.”

Looks Character Careers Reflecting Similarity

Author:Jodie Foster

“My career is one thing in my life that I don't plan.”

Careers Plans One Thing

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're an academic one moment, and you're a psychologist the next moment, an athlete the next moment... when you are out on the playground or coaching...so it enables you to play different roles.”

Different Play Moments Would Be Next Careers Roles Teacher Decided Athlete Coaching Hats Academic Psychologist Playgrounds

Author:Erik Weihenmayer

“What a thrill to be able to say that you had a contribution in the life of someone - a young person, perhaps, who is trying to take a look at the possibility of their own lives and find out what they are good at and you can help steer their career.”

Trying Looks Persons Helping Able Young Careers Possibility Contribution Thrill Steers

Author:Erik Weihenmayer

“I've never been able to tell jokes. In the beginning of my career I did impressions and jokes like any other comedian, but I was never very successful because I did it poorly. So I started to talk to the audience and started talking about the atmosphere around me and started to become angry, not in a mean-spirited way, but in a fun way - and my attitude developed from there.”

Way Mean Able Fun Attitude Talking Careers Audience Successful Jokes Angry Impression Comedian Atmosphere My Attitude Spirited Mean Spirited

Author:Don Rickles

“I want us to have it all, love and career. It's a struggle sometime to achieve that, but I love the struggle.”

Want Careers Struggle Achieve Want U Love And Care

Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood

“As for documentary, it was a natural progression from my earlier career in journalism. The two media are connected, but of course making films is much more complicated, because you have image, sound and music to work with, not simply words.”

Two Film Courses Sound Natural Careers Media Complicated Connected Journalism Documentaries Progression Sound And Music

Author:Nancy Kates

“Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.”

Knows Want Made Ends Differences Known Careers Winner Nba Multiple Championship Jordan Nba Championships

Author:Mario Chalmers

“The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.”

Way Mind Has Beens Whole Careers Laughing I've Learned

Author:John Waters

“The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.”

School Interest Careers High School Discouraged

Author:John Waters

“I think that's why I've lasted this long because I love everything I make fun of! I make fun of myself first! I mean, I started my career by calling my films "trash" - the local critics used to complain that I beat the critic to the typewriter.”

Thinking Firsts Mean Long Film Used Fun Careers Calling Beats Critics Complaining Locals Trash Typewriters

Author:John Waters

“I live in the past when it comes to movies, but my own career is a matter of remembering the nuts and bolts and things like eating chocolate cake and drinking milk with Jack [Kirby] in his kitchen, but that's all I remember.”

Matter Past Remember My Own Careers Eating Drinking Kitchen Chocolate Cake Nuts Milk Bolts Chocolate Cake Nuts And Bolts Eating Chocolate

Author:Mike Royer

“My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.”

Important Careers Important Things Important Things In Your Life

Author:Katherine Heigl

“First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director.”

Firsts Play Would Be Imagination Decision Careers Emotional Directors Resources Life Experience Criteria

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.”

Trying Important Careers Passionate

Author:Katherine Heigl

“I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.”

Would Be Acting Careers Hero Expected Dramatic Dean My Hero

Author:Jim Carrey

“When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody.”

Should Careers

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I didn’t know that it was going to launch a quote-unquote comedic career. I just wanted to do anything other than wait tables.”

Knows Wanted Waiting Careers Tables Comedic

Author:Charlie Day

“I wake up every day and think about what I am to other people. What I am to the people I employ, who depend on me to wake up and do my job that day and keep this career going? I think about what I am to the kids who listen to my music and all the other people involved in this project.”

People Thinking Kids Jobs Careers Depends Involved Projects Wake Up

Author:Halsey

“What I find really difficult is making career decisions.”

Difficult Decision Careers

Author:Paul Walker

“The game has changed since the '70s as more coaches have looked at ways to make it tougher on defenses. But I'm glad my career turned out the way it did - I would have never gotten a chance to learn the defensive side of the ball.”

Way Games Sides Chance Careers Changed Balls Defense Coaches Glad

Author:Tony Dungy

“Technology makes good DJ's better, but also allows your average person to think they're a DJ, and unfortunately there's no checks and balances about people making it a career.”

People Thinking Persons Careers Technology Balance Average Checks Djs Average Person

Author:Neil Armstrong

“Most of us think that decisions such as where shall I live, with whom shall I partner, what shall I pick as a career for my life are the most important decisions that we make. But from the point of view of the universe these decisions are not that important. Within you, you have already made decisions about who you are, what the universe is and how you will relate to other people and how you will relate to the universe and these decisions are creating consequences in your life moment by moment.”

People Thinking Made Important Moments Universe Decision Views Careers Creating Picks Consequence Who You Are Point Of View Partners Relate Within You Important Decisions

Author:Gary Zukav

“It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.”

Stuff Careers Sake

Author:Donald Miller

“The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only someone who is mentally disabled would pick that for a career.”

Trying Years Home Young Careers Roles Movement Mom Picks Feminist Young Women Disabled Stay At Home Feminist Movement Stay At Home Mom Mentally Disabled

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“Some of our most successful businessmen in US grew up in orphanages. They were well treated, and they learned discipline. They learned right or wrong, and they have wonderful careers.”

Wells Careers Successful Wonderful Grew Discipline Grew Up Treated Businessman Successful Business Orphanage Successful Businessman

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“If you want to make something happen in your life or career, well then you make and find the time. Simple as that.”

Ifs Want Wells Happens Simple Careers Things Happen

Author:Ashley Purdy

“I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict.”

Thinking Way Kind War Young Opportunity Careers Terrible Conflict Organization Reporters Covering

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Television happens very quickly. It was like a shot of adrenaline into me, as a filmmaker, and my career. You can hit town, do the show, and leave with this incredible energy behind you.”

Shows Happens Energy Behinds Careers Television Shots Towns Incredibles Filmmaker Behind You Adrenaline

Author:Michael J. Bassett

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