“It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of the time as an actor you're just hoping that exciting projects come your way.” ThinkingWayActorsCareersProjectsExcitingLuxuryThink Of You Author:Marin Ireland
“Of all the awards, the Stand-up Comic Audience Award is our favorite. It is a chance to honor the performers who spend much of their careers developing their craft and working in the comedy clubs all over America.” AmericaChanceCareersAudienceComedyHonorClubsCraftsComicDevelopingAwardsPerformersComedy Clubs Author:George Schlatter
“If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.” IfsCareersSucceedTerritoryThick Author:Gracia Martore
“Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.” AttentionCareersIncome Author:Jordana Spiro
“Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it.” IfsWantWellsSometimesHardFilmFunGoalPayCareersGunSticksGood WorkPayday Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay in skating. And I wanted to live up to whatever I could. Not so much win everything, but just to be the best that I could possibly be, to honor her memory and everything she went through to make sure that I was given the opportunities to be the best that I can be. Not to be a world champion or an Olympic gold medalist, but to be the best that I could be. And that was the most important thing that ever happened in my career.” WorldKindMadeI CanImportantWantedMotherOpportunityWinningGivenMemoriesCareersHappenedHonorUnderstoodCommitmentGoldImportant ThingsChampionBeing The BestSkatingPassed AwayWorld ChampionsMother Passed Away Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career.” CareersBreakSkillsReportsBossPeersCandorMake Or Break Author:Jack Welch
“Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing.” HardMotherMemoriesHealingCareersHappenedBabyMajorsMotherhoodDrivingEightyReconciliationHaving A BabyReclamation Book:Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey Source: Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey
“I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training.” ThinkingProblemReadingLeftBusinessEducationCareersInfluenceApproachTrainingGladBusiness ProblemsFuture Business Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.” CareersCriticism Author:Scott Adams
“One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.” CareersProductsEvolutionEvidentProfessional Career Author:Adrian Tomine
“I've never really felt that being part of a literary community is all that important. It can be extremely detrimental to a writer. It can damage successful writers by giving them an exalted sense of what they've done, and it can crush less successful writers by infecting them with envy and malice at an early stage in their careers.” GivingImportantDoneFeltCommunityCareersSuccessfulStageEnvyDamageCrushMaliceExaltedDetrimental Author:Pankaj Mishra
“At any age you can start over. You have to drop the idea of where you should be in your career. And you have to do without a lot of love. Not everyone's going to love you.” ShouldIdeasAgeCareersLove YouOver YouStarting Over Author:Mary Harron
“Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.” TalkingCareersBreakHabitImprovement Author:Dana Perino
“I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away.” ThinkingWantGoalCareersWorryAchieveCareer Goals Author:Dana Perino
“Choosing to be loved and to take the leap to get married younger than most of my friends was not a career-limiting decision for me.” DecisionCareersMarriedMy FriendsLeap Author:Dana Perino
“Concrete examples of successful women and their stories of achievement are the best inspiration and [means of] empowerment for other women to seek the heights in their professional career and take a leading role in society.” MeanStoriesInspirationCareersRolesSuccessfulExampleAchievementEmpowermentHeightConcreteSuccessful WomenProfessional Career Author:Dalia Grybauskaite
“If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.” IfsMenGivingPoliticalCareersSuccessfulBalanceGiving UpMissions Author:Dalia Grybauskaite
“Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.” TryingBelieveMadeImportantI BelieveCareersLearningFailureConfidencePoliticianSelf ImprovementStrongerResilienceLawyerDevelopingBelieve In YourselfTraitsStay StrongResilientFailure Is Not An OptionGetting StrongerStronger Than You ThinkStronger Than Before Author:Reshma Saujani
“In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you know, that goes up and down, and you can't judge how you feel about yourself based on what your sales is.” KnowsFeelsCareersDangerJudgingDown AndOneselfDefinedAbout YourselfPopularityUp And DownHow You Feel Author:Kenny Loggins
“In my career, fun becomes a big factor. If something feels like it's going to be creative and be fun - follow your bliss. Is this where the juice is? Then I go there.” IfsFeelsBigsFunCareersCreativeFactorsBlissBe CreativeJuiceFollow Your Bliss Author:Kenny Loggins
“It's difficult to get an audience to want to keep up with you, stay present tense. But there's never been a big lag in my career between product. I've constantly tried to pull my audience up into what I'm doing present tense, and they've been usually happy to go there with me.” WantBigsDifficultCareersAudienceProductsTenseLagPresent Tense Author:Kenny Loggins
“The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.” RealizingCareersAudienceBusyEntertaining Author:Angela Lansbury
“I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.” I CanCareersHappenedPursued Author:Angela Lansbury
“I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but you don't really make any money in the theater.” YearsCareersWonderfulStageTheater Author:Angela Lansbury
“If you work hard and you learn and you absorb and you pay attention, career in food is great. This job can take you all around the world. You can eat the most delicious food. It allows you to be creative.... [And] don't ever quit. It's going to pay off eventually. It might not be in a year. Might be 20 years or 10 years. But you have to keep pushing. Just have that fire, have the passion, and want to be successful. And don't listen to anybody else.” IfsWorldWantYearsHardMightJobsPassionPayAttentionCareersCreativeSuccessfulFireHard WorkQuittingAround The WorldPay AttentionBeing SuccessfulPushingBe CreativeDeliciousDelicious Food Author:April Bloomfield
“I love everything about entrepreneurship and about owning your career and doing what you love to do.” CareersEntrepreneurshipWhat You LoveDoing What You Love Author:Tamera Mowry
“Maybe "having enough" has a second meaning beyond the basic economic security a family needs. Maybe it means accepting that a rich full life with a job and family will be rewarding, but it certainly won't be perfect. As many of us who have combined kids and careers know all too well, some days it's really pretty messy. And that's OK.” KnowsNeedsWellsMeanEnoughKidsJobsPerfectAcceptingCareersRichEconomicSecurityMessyFull LifeEconomic SecurityReally Pretty Author:Willow Bay
“Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Meyer have already accomplished more than most. I think the sky is the limit for them professionally. If they can inspire more women to "lean in," as Sandberg so famously describes it - to pursue a career and a family - that would be an incredible accomplishment. If they can, by their example as hands on mothers and high powered executives, show young women that they don't need to leave the workplace when they have children, they will be superheroes.” IfsThinkingNeedsChildrenShowsHandsWould BeYoungMotherCareersSkyExampleInspireLimitsIncrediblesPursueAccomplishmentAccomplishedExecutivesYoung WomenWorkplaceSuperheroSky Is The Limit Author:Willow Bay
“Stretching, which I do for five to 10 minutes before and after a match, is so important in general when it comes to prolonging your career and staying injury-free.” ImportantCareersFiveMinutesInjuryStayingStretchingBefore And AfterProlonging Author:Jozy Altidore
“A girl's career today doesn't have the same kind of life span, whereas it used to be a collaboration and a partnership and it continued. Peter Lindbergh still uses girls - like, look at Amber Valetta - so there are some photographers that have relationships long-term with models. I also think that the industry can't support the amount of models that exist right now and therefore the relationships between photographers and models and even the clients is short lived.” ThinkingLooksKindLongStillsUseTodayUsedGirlTermCareersSupportIndustryAmountRight NowModelsPhotographerUsed To BeLong TermCollaborationPeterPartnershipClientsAmberShort LivedLife Span Author:Michael Flutie
“As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a good musician or a bad musician. What happens with Black writers and Black artists is that if you're critiqued, for example, by a Black historian who wants to get his name on the cover of "The New York Times," and he says something, like, wacky, well, he'll get his name on the cover of "The New York Times" and he might get tenure, and your career suffers.” IfsWantWellsBookMightHappensArtistSufferingNamesFeltBlackCareersNew YorkExampleMusicianJournalistReviewsHistorianQualifiedNew York TimesTenureWacky Author:James McBride
“I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.” ThinkingWayCareersWonderful Author:Stephen Sondheim
“I had a lot of nerves for a long time about career-oriented things, and I've slowly sort of let myself relax into it a bit. Part of me thinks that's maybe the effect of being on two hit shows. I like to think that maybe it's more: You do the things you do, and you do the best you can, and that's all you can hope for, and don't worry too much if it's not it.” IfsThinkingLongTwoShowsBitsCareersWorryToo MuchEffectsLong TimeRelaxNervesDo The Best Author:Matt McGorry
“I've had a very different career than a lot of other musicians. I went through the major labels. I was signed to two major labels and bands. I've toured with Aerosmith, and I've had records on the charts, songs in the movies. If you had checklist of things a person wants to accomplish in music...I've done a lot. And I don't mean that in an egotistical way; I never take it for granted. But you can't think outside the box unless you know what's in the box.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWantMeanPersonsTwoDifferentDoneSongCareersRecordsBandMajorsMusicianBoxesAccomplishGrantedLabelsEgotisticalOutside The BoxThink Outside The BoxChecklistsAerosmith Author:Michael Angelo Batio
“I'm living in a dream. I really consider myself really lucky. I was born and raised in Guatemala, in a village, where to go to the market you have to take two buses or drive about 20 minutes if you are lucky enough to have a car. I grew up very, very poor and I didn't even know that being an actor could be a career.” IfsKnowsTwoEnoughDreamActorsBornPoorCareersMinutesCarGrewLuckyGrew UpRaisedVillageBusBorn And RaisedGuatemala Author:Erick Chavarria
“I joke that I stick with the job because it covers my insurance, but the reality is that my career has always been very important to me.” ImportantRealityJobsCareersJokesSticks Author:Michelle Obama
“My whole family was very supportive of my choice in a career. I started playing music when I was about 6 years old.” YearsWholeChoicesCareersSupportivePlaying MusicWhole Family Author:Leland Sklar
“One aspect of my life and career that has helped me be successful is having mentors - having women show me the way. We have to support other women.” WayShowsCareersSupportSuccessfulAspectBeing SuccessfulMentorShow Me Author:Wendy Greuel
“There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice and the lack of generally accepted norms as to what art should be and how an artist's career should go and all that.” WorldShouldArtArtistCareersSpecialPrejudiceCuriosityAcceptedOpennessNorm Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen
“Touring with Brian May was like a dream come true that happened early in my career. He inspired me with the way he harmonized and layered his guitar sounds.” WayMayDreamSoundCareersHappenedInspiredGuitarDreams Come TrueTouringBrianGuitar Sound Author:Gary Hoey
“I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I've ever made.” FeelsMadeMatterHappensTodaySchoolDecisionCareersNo Matter WhatEndeavorGradGrad School Author:Gene Weingarten
“I don't record for my own glory.I mean, of course part of it is for career advancement, but more importantly, I want some of that repertoire - as much of it as possible - to remain and enter pianists' consciousness and, hopefully, into the standard repertoire.” WantMeanCoursesMy OwnConsciousnessCareersRecordsGloryStandardsHopefullyAdvancementPianist Author:Marc-Andre Hamelin
“I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well.” WorldWritingWellsSongFeltCareersBases Author:PJ Harvey
“If I worked 8 months on a deal and it didn't go through - I'd punch a wall, get depressed and change careers.” IfsDealsCareersWallMonths Author:Luis D. Ortiz
“I've been poked fun of throughout my career by fellow actors for my notes that I take. I have spiral notebooks that I carry with me on every project I do, and I take notes just so that if I have to relive a scene, if I have to go back, I know what I did.” IfsKnowsActorsFunCareersSceneProjectsFellowsNotesNotebookSpirals Author:Anna Chlumsky
“I think we all understand disappointing yourself. Especially in the acting profession, which is probably similar to a political career, even the most stable, head-on-straight person is still going to be confronted with doing something that they shouldn't, that could affect their job or cause them not to be at their best - even if it's something as simple as taking a red eye for an audition at 6 a.m. the next morning and you know you'll be dragging.” IfsThinkingKnowsPersonsStillsEyeJobsPoliticalNextCausesSimpleActingCareersMorningRedProfessionStableAuditionsDisappointingRed Eye Author:Corey Stoll
“The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing to admit. I don't know that I'd ever planned to be in this situation. I'm still just an idiot, really really stupid. It's not like I'm now a genius because this has happened. I just got hugely lucky.” KnowsKindStillsSituationCareersPlansHappenedStupidGeniusTruth IsLuckyIdiotFlatteringReally Stupid Author:Ty Burrell
“I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.” LifeCareersPolicyAdultsInstitutionsDedicatedLiability Author:John Kitzhaber