“I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.” ThinkingIdeasCareersDangerousPlanning Author:Clive Owen
“Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.” ImportantIdeasDifferentAbleFilmCareersHugeWho I AmBats Author:Kim Raver
“Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.” TryingIdeasWould BeThreeDecisionCareersStreetsCardsNaiveStrategicCanals Author:Benjamin Walker
“I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.” IdeasCareersPeriodsDegreesVariousSubstance Author:Ben Mendelsohn
“My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.” PeopleWayIdeasCareersAdventureGoes OnCuriosityAdmireMagazinesMy WayWeasels Author:John Hodgman
“In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.” YearsIdeasCareersSubjectsDegreesMathConvincedPhysicsFlyingTeenageTeenage Years Author:Bruce Dickinson
“When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.” IdeasHandsYoungCareersJournalism Author:Sebastian Arcelus
“Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas of how an accountant walks, talks, smells - although not in the business community. For me it is a career that offers a lot of variety and challenges and I love it.” PeopleWorldIdeasCommunityChallengesWalksPowerfulCareersOffersSmellCirclesBackgroundsAround The WorldVarietyAccountingAppearingAccountantsKiwi Author:Philip Roth
“[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man.” IfsMenShouldMeanIdeasYoungHumanityGoalCareersOffersDignityPerfectionConvincedProfessionExcellentYoung ManGreat MenScholarSageScopeImaginativeConsonants Author:Karl Marx
“During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.” TryingIdeasSometimesAgeBeautifulStarsCareersHarderActressesGoldenPlentyMovie StarIconicGolden AgeUnattractiveBeing Beautiful Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“I never really had a real career trajectory idea. I just like a lot of different kind of movies, I wanna make a lot of different kind of movies, and to some degree you follow opportunity and to the other degree you have to create your own opportunity.” KindIdeasDifferentRealOpportunityCareersDegreesDifferent KindsTrajectory Author:David Gordon Green
“Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.” WayIdeasYoungFatherLostCareersComplicationBeing A Father Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda.” IfsImportantIdeasCareersEnlightenmentAgendas Author:Frederick Lenz
“When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. This is great. People who know what they are doing know the rules, and know what is possible and impossible. You do not. And you should not. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. And you can. If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldArtMadeBookIdeasDoneCareersImpossibleHavensEasierBoundsComicNo IdeaComic BookTestedGreat PeoplePossible And Impossible Author:Neil Gaiman
“If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda. Approach your career from this standpoint and you will have a very different career. You will be successful.” IfsImportantIdeasDifferentSuccessCareersSuccessfulBuddhismApproachEnlightenmentBeing SuccessfulAgendasStandpointSuccessful Career Author:Frederick Lenz
“People use ideas of non-duality as an escape from reality. It is very easy to say there is no winning and losing and justify the fact that you didn't do a very good job.” PeopleIdeasFactsUseRealityJobsSuccessWinningEasyCareersBuddhismLosingVery GoodJustifyGood JobDualityWinning And Losing Author:Frederick Lenz
“I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.” IfsWantI CanIdeasDifferentCareersColorPaintingCanvasRenaissanceDifferent Colors Author:Nolan Gerard Funk
“I always had an idea for what I wanted to do in the future and throughout my career. This wasn't, like, me figuring out what to do after Idol. I've always known the steps in what I had to do to get where I was.” IdeasWantedKnownStepsCareersLike MeIdols Author:Jessica Sanchez
“I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was so little to go on out there. If you only see videos of me being crazy and hearing little things here and there, then obviously you're not going to have any idea who I really am.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFeelsLittlesIdeasCareersCrazyGoes OnAssumingHearingVideoLittle ThingsJudgedKnow MeHere And ThereBeing CrazyCareers And Life Author:Nicki Minaj
“I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.” IdeasWantedArtistCareersNo IdeaMusic Business Author:Ray Stevens
“It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.” WritingIdeasSometimesActionBrainCareersNicePaintingSeriousHelpfulHobbies Author:Erin Morgenstern
“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
“Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, notan individual problem.... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women.” ChildrenPersonsIdeasProblemTodayMotherIndividualWomenWorkCareersCenturyConflictGuiltCurrentsDefinedMen WomenBeing A WomanNineteenth CenturyBeing A MotherMalaise Author:Sandra Scarr
“Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.” FirstsIdeasJobsCareersSeeingInflationSalaryYoungstersCulmination Author:Bill Vaughan
“Sometimes I am more interested in the richness of the material with all the stuff we've done which all tell a story to me rather than any single film career I could have, because I really do find myself interested in other people's ideas. I just want to be responsible with an array of things that engage me and feel vital, opposed to the corporate media out there that is just about making the loudest noises possible.” PeopleWantFeelsIdeasSometimesDoneStoriesFilmStuffCareersMediaMaterialsResponsibleNoiseCorporateRichnessBeing Responsible Author:Larry Fessenden
“I didn't really do many business ventures throughout my career because I would have an idea and then before I'd have a chance to make something of it, I'd see someone else do it. I just liked to watch my fellow artists become entrepreneurs and be people who can inspire the next generation. I did that more with my songs.” PeopleIdeasArtistSongNextChanceCareersWatchesGenerationsInspireFellowsEntrepreneurVentureNext Generation Author:Nas
“Most of my career is spent in a meeting... dressed sharply, looking really great; negotiating over a table, strategizing or coming up with new marketing plans or new ideas. And that makes me really, really happy.” IdeasCareersPlansTablesMeetingsMarketingNew IdeasReally GreatReally HappyNegotiatingMarketing Plans Author:Tyra Banks
“I don't know if I'm all that famous. When I first started my idea of what a career in fashion would look like is very different to the reality now.” IfsKnowsFirstsLooksIdeasDifferentRealityCareersFashion Author:Karen Walker
“When you have absolutely no idea what's going to happen to you or what your career's going to end up like and you're just really open to anything, then you don't really have anything to loose.” IdeasEndsHappensCareersNo Idea Author:Lana Del Rey
“I just really enjoying creating in general; I used to also write stories and play music and do different crafts, but illustration ended up being the creative outlet that I focused on for my career. I feel like illustration gives me the flexibility to tackle more abstract or loose ideas, as well as just enjoy the process of putting time into developing a skill.” GivingFeelsWritingWellsIdeasDifferentPlayStoriesUsedProcessEnjoyCareersCreativeSkillsCreatingGive MeFocusedCraftsDevelopingAbstractFlexibilityOutletsIllustrationCreative Outlets Author:Julie Dillon
“It's playing with the idea of what musicians wear when they play live, especially focusing on the evolution of what a musician wears when they first start their career, when they are young and wild, to how they dress when they become famous and more polished.” FirstsIdeasPlayYoungCareersEvolutionMusicianDressesPolished Author:Renzo Rosso
“It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.” MadeIdeasWholeArtistThreeCareersStagePaintingElementsGood IdeasSkeletons Author:Josh Smith
“I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon as much as by baby boomers as it was by their parents.” IfsKnowsArtIdeasShowsParentCareersBabyShow BusinessBoomersBaby Boomer Author:Jason Sudeikis
“I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will mean people can still make their careers this way. Will whatever comes next allow people to be able to own their ideas and be able to take time to develop them?” PeopleKnowsWayMeanStillsBookIdeasHappensAbleNextCareersWorryTake TimeMean People Author:Edwidge Danticat
“Our government's investments in science, technology and innovation are ensuring that ideas move from the lab to the marketplace faster, creating jobs and opportunities for Canadians. Through our investment in Mitacs Elevate, we are providing training and new career opportunities for talented researchers while ensuring that local businesses such as Vision Extrusions stay competitive and continue to create jobs here in Woodbridge.” IdeasGovernmentJobsMovingOpportunityVisionCareersTechnologyCreatingTrainingInnovationInvestmentLocalsFasterProvidingMarketplaceResearchersLabsNew CarCreating JobsScience TechnologyNew CareerCareer OpportunitiesLocal BusinessTechnology And Innovation Author:Julian Fantino
“I was busy with my family, my budding career as a TV writer, my antipathy for the Los Angeles Lakers, and my general reluctance to engage in anything that might force me to leave my comfort zone. But sometimes ideas won't let you go. For me, educating girls was like that.” IdeasSometimesMightGirlForceCareersTvsComfortMy FamilyBusyZoneLos AngelesComfort ZoneReluctanceLetting You GoAntipathyLakers Author:Richard E. Robbins
“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