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“I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.”

“I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career.”

Ifs World Stills I Can Ends Home Careers Baseball End Of The World Appreciative Baseball Love

Author:Dontrelle Willis

“I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.”

Knows Looks Careers Husband Tough Glorious My Husband

Author:Emily Watson

“Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me.”

Whole Careers Majors My Family

Author:Gemma Ward

“I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Would Be Life Is Careers Successful Benefits Comfortable Fairs Selfish Successful Life Successful Career Comfortable Life

Author:George Weah

“I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.”

Enough Dream Energy Careers Changed Fortunate Hook 80s Hook Up

Author:Jack Wagner

“I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now.”

Want Soul Quality Careers Timeless Streisand

Author:Jessie Ware

“The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.”

Thinking World Should Done Whole Problem Felt Careers Finals Cups World Cup Cup Finals

Author:Jonny Wilkinson

“My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.”

Years School Social Cities Careers Study Teaching High School Years Ago Retired Social Studies Inner City Younger Sister Teaching History

Author:Judy Woodruff

“And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.”

Long Important Moments Political Given Careers Modern Fronts Lucky Journalism Seats Political Life Long Careers Important Moments

Author:Judy Woodruff

“I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.”

Careers Path Career Path

Author:Luke Wilson

“I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.”

Looks Wanted Careers Embarrassed

Author:Malcolm-Jamal Warner

“Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.”

Way Acting Careers Hobbies Another Way

Author:Malcolm-Jamal Warner

“Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.”

Careers Entertainment Tennis

Author:Venus Williams

“One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.”

Years Three Deals Careers Four Materials Albums Hardest Release Four Years Hardest Thing

Author:Al Yankovic

“Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.”

Careers Late Embarking

Author:Brock Yates

“I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.”

Years Careers Willing Publishing

Author:Marguerite Young

“I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.”

Long Hard Film Term Chance My Own Careers Long Time Features

Author:Duncan Jones

“Sex has never been something I've done in my career - at all.”

Done Sex Careers

Author:Keri Russell

“It wasn't until I moved to Nashville that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing my whole career, the feeling of being able to sit around with a guitar and have people know each other's songs and know songs from people who've influenced all of us. When I moved here pretty early on Vince Gill started calling me to do guitar pulls, and I thought, gosh, this is just like heaven on earth down here.”

People Knows Whole Feelings Able Earth Song Heaven Community Careers Missing Calling Moved Guitar I Realized Nashville Heaven On Earth

Author:Sheryl Crow

“It's not going to be easy. It's the earth. What creates power in your life is when you perfect your mind, your career, and your associations with others.”

Inspirational Mind Earth Life Is Easy Perfect Careers Buddhism Association

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is a structuring of the elements in your life in a particular way.”

People Way Inspirational Different Self Success Careers Particular Buddhism Type Involved Elements Discovery Self Discovery Renunciation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People who tap the kundalini and are able to release it are more successful. Anyone who is really on top has some access to the kundalini. They have learned somewhere down the line, in this or other lives, ways of releasing power.”

People Way Able Success Lines Careers Successful Buddhism Access Release

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working.”

People World Hard Careers Path Enlightenment Hinduism Krishna Gita

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.”

“Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened”

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Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.”

Wells Self Care Able Understanding My Own Careers Capacity Self Knowledge Self Care Nurturing

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“I've spent my entire career being a satirist.”

Careers Satirist

Author:Al Franken

“Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.”

Goal Careers Ready Rings New Car New Goal New Career

Author:Lennox Lewis

“Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.”

Made Use Home Political Decision Careers Concepts Locals Phrases Closest Home Rule

Author:Linda Lingle

“Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.”

People Thinking Wells Made Done Political Careers Comedy Absolutes Good Things Campaigns Odd Territory Senate Arcs Satirist Uncharted Uncharted Territory

Author:Al Franken

“During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.”

Important Government Felt Enjoy Careers Cases Study Military Students College Chosen Comedian Vietnam Completing Military Service

Book:The Truth (with jokes)

Source: The Truth (with jokes)

“Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.”

World Government School Steps Careers Policy Television Fellows Presses Corporate Publishing Harvard Public Policy

Book:Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Source: Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.”

Ifs World Hard Would Be Kids Wanted School Jobs America Felt Parent Chance Class Careers Growing Up Growing Middle Middle Class Good School

Author:Al Franken

“I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.”

Years Careers Generations Younger Generation

Author:Nastia Liukin

“I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.”

Wish Careers Regret Court Retiring No Regrets Have No Regrets

Author:Rebecca Lobo

“The truth will only be told over a career.”

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Author:Richard Linklater

“At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.”

School Father Careers Roles Months High School Mathematics Filled Eight Medical I Realized Greek Feminine Latin Gaps Permission Medical School Professional Career

Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini

“An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product.”

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Author:Ron Livingston

“My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.”

School Parent Careers Dad High School My Dad Graduates Lots Of Money Printing Salesman Working Life Graduating High School

Author:Al Franken

“Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.”

People Book Can Do Careers Millions Four Share Huge

Author:Sandra Lee

“I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.”

Firsts I Can My Own Careers First Time Labels

Author:Shelby Lynne

“The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.”

Courses Careers Olympics Highlights

Author:Tara Lipinski

“I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career without even being nominated. So that would definitely be a goal to reach. It's a difficult one, but I'm aiming for it!”

Whole Dream Actors Winning Difficult Goal Careers Ultimate Oscars

Author:Taylor Lautner

“I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.”

Thinking World Careers Player Stage

Author:Andy Murray

“I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.”

Ideas Careers Periods Degrees Various Substance

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.”

Done Careers Opposites

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.”

People Giving Years Firsts Stills Helping Remember Careers Four Happened News Give Me Scripts Credit Contracts Four Years Good News

Author:Leslie Moonves

“Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.”

Looks Careers

Author:Paul McGann

“I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.”

Want Trying Stills Opportunity Grows Careers Get Better

Author:Scoot McNairy

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