“Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.” PeopleThinkingWritingDoneHelpingArtistGuySongOrderCareersPicksWrite Your Own Author:Jake Owen
“Well, I was coming off of being on 'Law & Order,' and I was a little worried that it might be the end of my career - I've never been one of those actors with a lot of confidence that the next good job will come along.” WellsLittlesEndsMightJobsLawOrderNextActorsCareersWorriedGood Job Author:Jeremy Sisto
“I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.” KindPlayGuyOrderCareersFiguresVillainEmployedBad Guys Author:Jeffrey Pierce
“Life has a balance and natural order. I'm not fighting the flow anymore. My career right now is very up. It's happening naturally and it's happening well.” WellsOrderFightingNaturalCareersBalanceRight NowHappeningsFlowNatural Order Author:Irene Cara
“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.” PeopleJobsOrderPeaceDecisionCareersMetsMotive Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“In the Atlantean civilization, law existed to create order, that is to say, to see justice was done. In the old way, the law was equal for all, not the strong win and the weak lose.” WayDoneSuccessLawOrderWinningStrongLosesJusticeCareersCivilizationEqualWeakAncient EgyptOld WaysAtlantis Author:Frederick Lenz
“Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.” PeopleWayWantNeedsTryingFirstsOrderSidesCareersSupportConflictHappyWhat You WantMore MoneyReverseBeing HappyBackwardsPursuit Of HappinessTrue HappinessGreat HappinessNot HappyLife HappinessReally HappyHappy PeopleTrue YouInner HappinessBe Who You AreJust Be HappyFeeling HappyTrianglesWant To Be HappyLife And HappinessSelf HappinessInspirations Being YourselfWhat Is HappinessMoney HappinessInspirational CareerOthers HappinessHappier LifeHappy ThingsLive HappyBeing Happy With LifeTrying To Be HappyI Just Want To Be HappyI Want To Be HappyBeing Yourself And HappyHappy With My LifeJust Want To Be HappyBe True To Who You AreCreating Your Life Author:Shakti Gawain
“Coast to Coast AM may just be the most unusual show I have ever witnessed or been a part of. You really almost have to be born into that arena, I think, in order to handle it. I was very lucky in that's the way I was guiding my own career. It was this thirst to really get to the bottom of some of these stories that kept pushing me.” ThinkingWayMayStoriesShowsOrderBornMy OwnCareersLuckyBottomHandlePushingUnusualThirstCoastArena Author:George Noory
“I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career here in Chicago. I've always been an optimist; I believe you have to be in order to survive, to be honest with you - in health, with what I've been through. That's the way I am.” WayYearsBelieveWholeOrderI BelieveCareersHonestBeing HonestChicagoOptimistCubs Author:Ron Santo
“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
“The most important thing to having a long career, as an actor, is diversity and being able to play different types of characters in different types of movies. I want to keep acting, all my life. In order to do that, I think it is important to go and do the bigger tentpole box office movies, and then also do more character roles.” ThinkingWantLongImportantDifferentPlayCharacterAbleOrderActorsActingCareersRolesTypeOfficeDiversityBiggerImportant ThingsBoxesBox OfficeLong Careers Author:Josh Hutcherson
“I don't have to be that gentleman ["baddest man on the planet"] anymore. Now I have to be "this" guy. And in order to be "this" guy, I have to be smiling, I have to be gregarious, I have to be entertaining, and I have to be friendly. This is what my career needs now. I've adapted. But 20 years from now, I may need a different persona.” MenNeedsYearsMayDifferentGuyOrderCareersPlanetsGentlemanFriendlyEntertainingThis GuyPersonaAdaptedGregarious Author:Mike Tyson
“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
“Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.” MenPhilosophyOrderPartyCareersMembersServantFree ManPublic ServantsPersonal Philosophy Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Early in my career I was divided because I had the real self underneath: the lawbreaker, the anarchist, the person who swims against the tide, the outsider, the loner, all of that guy. He was my private self, and I had this other side that wanted to be liked in order to do all those things I dreamed of as a little boy. I didn't realize that those things didn't go together until later. And I'm quite sure that my use of acid and peyote helped me accept what was really going on inside of me instead of what I had imposed on myself.” LittlesPersonsRealSelfUseWantedTogetherGuyOrderSidesRealizingAcceptingBoysCareersSwimDividedTidesOutsidersAcidAnarchistThat GuyLittle BoysLonerReal SelfPeyote Author:George Carlin
“I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed. While LEGOs are sold in kits in order to build specific things, there [are] very few people who leave their LEGOs in those kits. It very rapidly becomes an open system where you can build whatever you want. That's the one thing that signifies my entire life and my career. I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.” PeopleThinkingWantKidsAgeWantedOrderRealizingPowerfulCareersOne ThingKeysToysVery PowerfulLegos Author:Jamie Hyneman
“Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.” WellsCountryStatesOrderCareersCastsComedianPerformersSitcomWell RoundedStand Up Comedian Author:Scott Thompson