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“I've been through so much in my career in F1, particularly in 1995, and I did achieve so much that I thought that it's not worth it any more to push your luck further. [on his retirement”

Careers Achieve Luck Retirement Worth It Not Worth It

Author:Mika Hakkinen

“By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.”

Thinking Has Beens Careers Buddy

Author:Robert Genn

“I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.”

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Author:Mark Kostabi

“If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.”

Firsts Boys Careers Essentials Capable Enjoyment Relish

Author:Charles M. Schwab

“I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.”

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Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.”

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Book:Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

“It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.”

Water Careers Garden Our Relationship Do The Best

Author:Jewel

“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. ... Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these.”

Ifs Inspirational Careers Products Fortunate Revolutionary Apples Just One Cellphone

Author:Steve Jobs

“I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].”

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Author:Jim Thorpe

“I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.”

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Author:Charles M. Schwab

“It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.”

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Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -”

Way Life Careers Passing Away Exalted Pageant

Book:Poems (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)

Source: Poems (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)

“I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!”

Thinking Stuff Careers Knowledge Learning Management

Author:Steve Jobs

“The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work”

“Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.”

Children Careers Study Taught Scripture Cherish Entertaining

Author:Walt Disney

“The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.”

Nature Careers Flower

Book:The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.”

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Author:James Gandolfini

“If you can create a career built on passion, your chances for success, fulfillment, and longevity are far greater than if you take any old job simply for the paycheck.”

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Author:Katherine Schwarzenegger

“You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight... Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“No matter if you're just starting out or if you are at the peak of your career, the more you work in your strength zone, the more successful you will be.”

Ifs Matter Motivational Careers Successful Starting Zone Starting Out

Book:The Complete 101 Collection

Source: The Complete 101 Collection

“Giving my life to you may mean leading a very ordinary life or it may mean leading an extraordinary life. It may mean having a family and a career or it may mean going beyond all that to just work for others. It's hard to say. Rather than making a decision myself, I'm going to give my life to you, to do with as you will, because I know that you are my self, you are my very being.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“From the beginning of your career until the end, you have people telling you, you can't do something or you're only going to get so far. That either drives you to be become the best or it stops you at the stipulations that other people have for you.”

People Ends Careers Mma Stipulations

Author:Dominick Cruz

“Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.”

Matter Success Sports Careers Journey Modest Athletic Lofty

Author:Dan Millman

“I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.”

Believe Long Careers Grew Grew Up Long Time Aspect Thrust

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories and work for as long as I have. I'm sure there'll be a few more films but I'm happy that I'm able to be selective.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“I reckon it's more of an external perspective that on some level you really can control and dictate how your career's going to go.”

Levels Careers Perspective

Author:Guy Pearce

“I'm happy to try any genre, from drama to comedy and anything in between. Although, to be fair, for most of my career, I've been at the mercy of what people are willing to put me in.”

People Trying Careers Comedy Willing Drama Fairs Mercy Genre

Author:Chris Pratt

“One thing I've found that's really helpful in our relationship is that she's [Anna Faris] very normal. And I don't mean ordinary - I mean, she doesn't act like a big star or a comic icon or anything like that. She's really down-to-earth and sweet, and we do talk about comedy, about movies, about our careers and possible projects.”

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Author:Chris Pratt

“My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.”

Men Firsts Has Beens War Young Careers Needed My Family Exciting Curiosity Curious Journalist Young Man Affected Glamorous

Author:Sebastian Junger

“I've learned a lot from doing the sitcom. I've learned so much about comedic timing. For all the movies I've done, I've played so many different roles. I love both, but I guess in my career maybe I want to stick more to film.”

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Author:Kaitlyn Dever

“I built a career on negative reviews. I didn't get a good review ever until Fran Lebowitz gave me a good review in Interview. That was the first good review I got in 10 years.”

Years Firsts Careers Built Negative Interviews Reviews

Author:John Waters

“I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn't stop with my generation.”

People Thinking Young Careers Generations My Generation Understand Me

Author:John Waters

“My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I have done I want to share with the world - not the whole world which couldn't care less, but my private world, which is my country, Canada.”

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Author:Joseph Plaskett

“I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mum.”

Thinking America Mother Careers Personality

Author:Victoria Beckham

“Throughout my trading career, I have continually witnessed examples of other people that I have known being ruined by a failure to respect risk. If you don’t take a hard look at risk, it will take you.”

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Author:Larry Hite

“I've dedicated my career to fighting the mundane. My hope is that my career will be a shining example to children everywhere that life is more meaningful when you are not afraid to see all colors of the rainbow.”

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Author:RuPaul

“Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.”

Knows Matter Careers Knowledge Is Power Knowledge And Power

Author:Randeep Hooda

“A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.”

Years Believe Jobs Film Careers Findings Training Years Ago Horse Riding Disguise Consumed Boon

Author:Randeep Hooda

“D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.”

Thinking Careers Nice Fans Come Up Hey Polite

Author:Bryce Harper

“I don't care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career -- every woman needs a couple of chicks who'll break out the sangria just because you need to vent.”

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Book:Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner

Source: Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner

“Treat your career like a bad boyfriend... Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around... You have to care about your work, but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.”

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Author:Amy Poehler

“Bob Beaudine challenges you to think differently. His unique approach to life and business has helped elevate many careers.”

Thinking Challenges Careers Approach Unique Bob

Author:Roger Goodell

“I mean, you can't make anything without making mistakes, is the truth, and I'm very grateful for those misses that I've had in my career at home, because you learn so much more from them than you ever do from the hits. You learn that you really have to work hard, which I wasn't really doing at that time. You sort of think 'I've cracked it, I'm doing it.'And you start to think perhaps you're more of a dude than you really are.”

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Author:James Corden

“I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career.”

Author:Amy Pascal

“Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.”

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Author:Antony Sher

“The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.”

Whole Bits Acting Careers Mystery

Author:Antony Sher

“Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.”