“So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.” FeelsStatesActorsUnitedCareersUnited StatesBuilt Author:Anthony LaPaglia
“You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.” WholeFatherNaturalCareersProtectDaughterBuilt Author:Arnon Goldfinger
“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.” IfsMotivationalJobsPassionChanceCareersGreaterBuiltFulfillmentLongevityPaychecksOld Job 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.” WayLittlesHas BeensMotivationalLawWinningBitsCompanyStepsCareersWeekDesignSpringTrainingBuiltGoldBrandsFirmSensationsOperaMedalGold MedalsGreat CompanyLaw Firms Author:Seth Godin
“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.” YearsFirstsCareersBuiltNegativeInterviewsReviews Author:John Waters
“Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what theyve already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.” ThinkingWantTryingAttitudeCareersBuiltInnovationRadicalLegacyAccomplishedStatus QuoResisting Author:Peter Diamandis
“Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people who have a pattern, who've built a career out of dividing people and who built a career out of often not just Obama but finding ways to degrade and diminish African-Americans and African-American leaders. It's racist to consistently make your living on the backs of black people.” PeopleIfsWayLooksBlackLeaderCareersJudgingFindingsConsequenceBuiltPatternsAfrican AmericanRacistBlack PeopleConsistentlyDiminishLiving OnDegradeDividing Author:Joan Walsh Anglund
“Careers are built on relationships. Even if it's a bad movie, even if I know it's a bad movie, even if it's a team of filmmakers that I know are going to be difficult, that I know are going to really make me work extra hard, it's fundamentally the same process.” IfsKnowsHardProcessDifficultCareersTeamBuiltFilmmakerExtrasBad Movies Author:Christophe Beck
“I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. They hated my movies. You could never have that happen today. Critics are way too hip.” WayWarHappensTodayFilmCareersBuiltNegativeCriticsHipsHatedReviewsSquaresFilm Critics Author:John Waters
“Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing.” IfsWayFeelsWholeCharacterActorsCareersBuilt Author:Clint Eastwood
“Be persistent. Establishing yourself in this field could easily take years. Rarely will any composer get that one "big break." More often, success is built on hundreds - or thousands - of very small breaks. When I decided that I was definitely going to pursue a career as a film composer, I decided I was going to beat my head against that particular wall until something broke.” YearsBigsFilmCareersBreakFieldsParticularWallBeatsBuiltDecidedPursueBrokeComposerPersistentFilm Composers Author:John Keltonic
“I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and living in a town, Los Angeles, that is built on envy. Once you fall, people don't really root for you to come back again. I'd go to restaurants where I always had the best table and half the time they wouldn't even let me pay. And then when I stopped making movies, the same places wouldn't even give me a lousy table, never mind the best one!” PeopleGivingMindFallLeftPayHalfCareersGraceBuiltRootsLet MeGive MeTownsTablesEnvyRestaurantsLos AngelesSpectacularUnemployedBack AgainFalls From Grace Author:Mickey Rourke
“I'm sure the most favorite airplane in my career would still be the Sabre F86 cleft wing , which allowed me to be credited with 2 Russian-built Mig-15 destroyed during the Korean War. Where I was in 1953.” StillsWarCareersBuiltWingsDestroyedAirplaneKoreanLeft WingKorean WarMost Favorite Author:Buzz Aldrin
“I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career.” WayCareersBuildingAdultsBuiltIndependentRapLabelsEmpiresBeverages Author:E-40
“Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.” ThinkingYearsTwoStrongCareersKnowingTrainingBuiltFoundationGreekTwo YearsLatinLongevityAtticsStrong Foundation Author:Rita Mae Brown