“I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.” CareersFortunateCollaborators Author:Bebe Neuwirth
“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.” EnoughDreamEnergyCareersChangedFortunateHook80sHook Up Author:Jack Wagner
“I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.” WantHas BeensSaidWinningSportsGoalCareersBreakRecordsFortunateBowlsSuper BowlMiamiDolphins Author:Dan Marino
“I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.” FeelsCareersNicePlayerFootballSkillsFortunateConsistentFootball Player Author:Darren Flutie
“I feel fortunate that, by the age of 40, I had crammed in an entire political career.I had been in the Cabinet and been leader of the party, so now I can branch out into other things... it is a very liberating feeling.” FeelsI CanFeelingsAgePoliticalPartyLeaderCareersFortunateBranchesLiberatingCabinetsAge Of 40 Author:William Hague
“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.” IfsInspirationalCareersProductsFortunateRevolutionaryApplesJust OneCellphone Author:Steve Jobs
“Looking back, I have to say that I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people. Unfortunately, a lot of them are gone. But I look back and, yeah, I have had a really great career!” PeopleLooksCareersGoneYeahFortunateLooking BackReally GreatGreat People Author:John Kapelos
“I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.” I CanSidesMy OwnViewsCareersSeriousCircumstancesMajorsIntellectualCommitmentTraditionBaseballAccidentsBackgroundsFortunateFeaturesMentalityEasternDestinedLifelongCapriciousOdysseyContingencyFamily Tradition Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“I've been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.” PeopleWellsCareersApproachSmartStrikesFortunateModestSmart PeopleReally Smart Author:Bill Russell
“One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.” PeopleTryingLooksEnoughStepsCareersBreakFailingRiskBrokenHeroBallsFortunateSomething NewBowie Author:Trent Reznor
“I think I've been fortunate over the years to be at a point in my career where I really get to choose the partnerships that I really want to take on and they're a perfect fit.” ThinkingWantYearsPerfectCareersFitFortunatePartnershipPerfect Fit Author:Tom Brady
“I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater, more theater than anything else, and when I was doing films that I got a chance just to do a broad range of things.” FilmChanceCareersTheaterRangeFortunateBroads Author:Tony Shalhoub
“During my career as a standup and actor, I realized it was very frustrating for me to get hired because Hollywood was hiring a different kind of brother, you know, and I was doing political humor... In order for me to really have a long career, I'm going to have to learn how to write and produce for myself... I had no idea I was really going to like it and I'm very fortunate to be successful. But the idea was to always eventually create something for myself. That was the idea from the beginning when I went into writing and producing.” KnowsWritingKindLongIdeasDifferentPoliticalOrderActorsCareersSuccessfulProduceBrotherHollywoodI RealizedNo IdeaFortunateBeing SuccessfulDifferent KindsFrustratingHiringPolitical HumorLong Careers Author:Larry Wilmore
“I know that I've been blessed in many ways, and I was fortunate enough to travel the world and meet a lot of interesting people. But I never felt that the modeling career was all that important.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayImportantEnoughFeltInterestingCareersBlessedFortunateModelingTravel The World Author:Kathy Ireland
“Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service. Over the course of my career, I've been fortunate to always encounter others who share that philosophy.” PhilosophyAgeYoungCoursesParentCareersShareFortunateEncountersHappy LifeYoung Age Author:Keke Palmer
“I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films. I didn't make that money necessarily from the film business, but I eventually made a lot of money and that's what I do. Of course, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate, and I'm pretty content with my life.” KindMadeEnoughFilmCoursesMy OwnCareersFinanceFortunateLots Of MoneyGave UpHad Enough Author:Francis Ford Coppola