“Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.” WorldLooksHardMy OwnCareersHard WorkFameSingers Author:Rick Astley
“Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.” LooksMotherFatherInterestCareersGrewGrew UpGuidesGroundedMother And Father Author:Larenz Tate
“A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love so I'm going to make it my career.” IfsWayShouldLooksJobsHateCareersQuittingHate You Author:Cameron Sinclair
“All things being equal, I would choose a woman over a man in order to even the balance of power, to insinuate a different perspective into the process, to give young women something to shoot for and someone to look up to. But all things are rarely equal.” MenGivingLooksDifferentYoungOrderProcessCareersPerspectiveBalanceEqualAll ThingsCompetitionInequalityLook UpYoung WomenDifferent PerspectiveBeing EqualBalance Of Power Author:Anna Quindlen
“I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and dont want to look like grandmothers.” WantLooksWantedCareersClothesSexyGrandmother Author:Joseph Altuzarra
“I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.” LooksMayMeanLongRunningSuccessFightingChanceCareersFailingRiskGoes OnHonorReputationRuinsMoving OnEncountersEncouragingFavourRoad To SuccessFear Of FailureChances AreRecipe For SuccessWords Of EncouragementCarrying OnGiving Up Is Not An OptionGreat Risk Book:Can You Forgive Her? Source: Can You Forgive Her?
“I look back over my career and I almost pissed it away. I got a second chance and I've made the most of my opportunity. I play every game like it's the last game of my career.” LooksMadePlayLastsOpportunityGamesChanceCareersSecond Chance Author:Albert Belle
“I would rather have come to Baltimore than the Yankees. You look at their situation, they're the kingpin and you want to be that underdog that knocks them off the top. That's pretty much the situation I've been in my whole career. It just makes for a better season when you knock the big guys off the top.” WantLooksWholeBigsGuySituationCareersSeasonsYankeesUnderdogBaltimoreBig Guys Author:Albert Belle
“The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.” YearsLooksArtistCareersHonorMajors Author:Daryl Hall
“The world has obviously changed in terms of the way filmmakers and actors and writers often look at their own careers. They all seem to want to include in their own process - along with some of their iconic and franchise-driven movies.” WorldWayWantLooksSeemsActorsProcessTermCareersChangedDrivenFilmmakerIconic Author:Mark Canton
“In my career as a double, a lot of my job is to not just do the fights to make them look cool, but also to appear as the same person as the actor I am playing.” LooksPersonsJobsFightingActorsCareers Author:Zoe Bell
“I sometimes look at the careers of other... I guess I could call them contemporaries or maybe close artists; you know, the 4 or 5 guys who go to New York City and get a loft and work together and use each other as models and that sort of thing and wait for years and years to get married. Maybe I just wasn't that definite.” KnowsYearsLooksSometimesUseTogetherArtistGuyWaitingCitiesCareersNew YorkMarriedModelsWorking TogetherNew York CityDefinite Author:Mike Royer
“I kind of look at my modeling career and the Alfred Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.” YearsLooksKindCareersStonesModelingStepping StonesHitchcock Author:Tippi Hedren
“I don't think I've ever tried to be something that I'm not. People do that for you. People try to pigeonhole you. People tried typecasting me, before they even saw me in anything else. I've never understood that. I was like, "Why don't you wait until my next project, before you start telling my what my career is going to look like, for the next 10 years?" I've never let it set me back because I always knew the world would try to do that for me, anyway.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingYearsLooksNextWaitingCareersSawsProjectsUnderstoodTypecasting Author:Chris Colfer
“I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.” ThinkingLooksHardFightingCareersDefinedSecondsHigh Points Author:Mike Tyson
“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
“I look at my career and how I'm doing it now. I feel like there is something authentic in that process that I still try not to over manipulate. When I feel something, I try to listen to that.” FeelsTryingLooksStillsProcessCareersManipulate Author:Charlize Theron
“I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters I was playing. I see the similarities in them reflecting on my life.” LooksCharacterCareersReflectingSimilarity Author:Jodie Foster
“What a thrill to be able to say that you had a contribution in the life of someone - a young person, perhaps, who is trying to take a look at the possibility of their own lives and find out what they are good at and you can help steer their career.” TryingLooksPersonsHelpingAbleYoungCareersPossibilityContributionThrillSteers Author:Erik Weihenmayer
“Obviously, throughout my career, I've always felt like certain things come to me at the right time. When I look at the work that I've done, it's always very indicative of where I was in my life at the moment.” LooksDoneMomentsCertainFeltCareersRight Time Author:Jennifer Lopez
“I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even when I'm offered work, I always want small parts. When it comes to things that other people have written, I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm terrible at memorizing a script and reading lines. I get confused and I don't understand and it just looks fake to me. It's more difficult for me to be creative that way.” PeopleKnowsWayWantLooksReadingDifficultLinesActingCareersCreativeWrittenDoorsTerribleScriptsFakeAgencyConfusedAmbitiousBe CreativeBreaking DownSmall PartsMemorizingHeadshots Author:Amy Sedaris
“Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of people who don't paint just see a blur when they look at it.” PeopleLooksArtistCareersBuildingFellowsPaintDialogueBlurGraffiti Author:KAWS
“The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.” WorldLooksPoliticalPoliticsTermCareersMembersCongressTerm Limits Author:Robert Novak
“The picture I was hoping for is never the picture I get, but yeah, I think they fail all the time. Fortunately my clients don't think they do, so I can continue to have a career. But I just look at them and think.” ThinkingLooksI CanCareersFailingYeahClients Author:Gregory Heisler
“I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path that you can follow; there’s very few people doing this that you can look to and pinpoint the mistakes. It hasn’t changed since I was little. You have interests and follow them and strange things happen, organically or not.” PeopleYearsLooksLittlesStillsHappensInterestMistakeCareersPathChangedStrangeYears AgoThings HappenOutlookStrange ThingsCareer PathAnimator Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“I have a fan-base that apparently like you know, people...it's not that they look up to but you have certain figures that, you know, you'd like to be more like and people really love Bella and I do too but I'm not her...I don't think anybody expects me to try to just for the rest of my career appease an audience that once liked "Twilight", you know what I mean?” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingLooksMeanCertainLove IsCareersAudienceFansFiguresLike YouLook UpTwilightAppease Author:Kristen Stewart
“You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.” KnowsLooksArtStillsEndsEyeArtistDarkCareersToo MuchSeeingPaintingSafeComfortableTiredDetailsWarmBlindnessNeedlesMiniatures Author:Ian McDonald
“As I look back now on my coaching career, I think of my family, I think of the days that we spent together. I say this to coaches everywhere: If you ever have a chance to take your kids with you, take them. Don't miss that opportunity. Because when it's all over and done with, when you look back, those are going to be your fondest memories.” IfsThinkingLooksDoneKidsTogetherJobsOpportunityMemoriesChanceFamilyCareersMissingMy FamilyCoachesCoaching Author:John Madden
“[Learn] to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life. We call them coincidences, but if we look closely we see they are meaningful. They bring us just the right information at just the right time to extend our careers, relationships, and growth. These events feel destined in some way, as though the world is set up to help us make a better life, work through our problems, and reach our dreams - if we just pay attention.” IfsWorldWayFeelsLooksHelpingProblemDreamHappensOpportunityGrowthPayAttentionCareersEventsInformationDown AndMeaningfulMysteriousPay AttentionPerceiveCoincidenceRight TimeDestinedOur DreamsSlow DownBetter Life Author:James Redfield
“My favorite tattoo right now is the one on my lower stomach that reads "Almost Famous" because as my career grows I'm still humbled every morning when I look at that tattoo, and I'll always remember how much it sucked to ALMOST be famous.” LooksStillsRememberGrowsCareersMorningRight NowMy FavoriteStomachEvery MorningTattoo Author:Machine Gun Kelly
“If you look at the careers of Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Paul Giamatti, Meryl Streep, none of them shot up in terms of fame or fortune or recognition, they laid a platform of good, solid work and became better and better.” IfsLooksTermCareersFameShotsFortuneRecognitionPlatformsPhilip Author:Max Irons
“If you look at television shows, which of course are fictional so you don't expect them to be real, but they're constantly showing career women who are also successful mothers and also look gorgeous. And we fall into believing that these fictional lives are somehow accurate depictions of what our real lives should be about.” IfsShouldBelieveLooksRealShowsMotherFallCoursesCareersSuccessfulTelevisionReal LifeBeing RealAccurateGorgeousTelevision ShowsDepictionCareer Women Author:Debora Spar
“Larousse is an invaluable tool for any cook. I've used this great resource all throughout my cooking career, and of course I look forward to the new edition. New information and knowledge are always welcome.” LooksUsedCoursesCareersInformationResourcesToolsCookingWelcomeCooksInvaluableNew Information Author:Thomas Keller
“The Youth Employment Fund is helping Ontario's young people build valuable skills and access job opportunities that will lay the groundwork for successful careers. I'm thrilled that more than 10,000 youth of all abilities and backgrounds have already benefited from this important program and I look forward to our impressive team of Employment Ontario partners continuing to work with businesses across the province to help young people build a brighter future for Ontario.” PeopleLooksImportantHelpingJobsYoungOpportunityAbilityCareersSuccessfulTeamYouthSkillsProgramLaysValuableAccessPartnersBackgroundsEmploymentFundContinuingImpressiveBrighterProvincesOntarioGroundworkSuccessful CareerJob OpportunitiesBrighter Future Author:Brad Duguid
“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