“People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.” PeopleI CanHardCareersRiskMusicianSlopes Author:Vanessa Mae
“It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.” PeopleSelfBeliefActingCareersStageExampleGoes OnAffirmationBelief In SelfEnticing Author:Miranda Otto
“In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.” PeopleKnowsWritingHas BeensMotherTermCareersInfluenceHugeGrandmotherMy GrandmotherSupportiveWriting Life Author:Tea Obreht
“My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensMightYoungCareersCrisisAmbitiousHungMight Have BeenPrematureMisplacedMidlifeMidlife Crisis Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.” PeopleIfsMadeI CanCareersIllusionIllusion Of Control Author:Diane Lane
“For me, I'm always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?” PeopleYearsI CanOpportunityNamesStarsCareersThirtyTomsMovie StarThirty YearsUnprecedentedCruise Author:David Oyelowo
“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
“I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.” PeopleThinkingCareersHavens Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantCountryPlayAbleCareersRocksFrontsMusicianPerformancesJazzLastingSongwritingPunkSongwritersGroundwork Author:Amy Ray
“OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.” PeopleYearsBigsFilmKnownCareersSuccessfulFineExcitingPaidHostRespectableRubbishJuliaAmerican Film Author:Joely Richardson
“People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.” PeopleGamesCareersCryFulfilled Author:Stephen Rea
“I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.” PeopleThinkingAbleGrowsCareersEconomicSkillsReinventing Author:Chesley Sullenberger
“This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.” PeopleSoulMovingCareersNew YorkSceneFolksHearingActressesMy SoulDroppingDeliveryPouringSpoken WordCatharticVery Moving Author:Sonja Sohn
“I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.” PeopleWould BeLinesCareersWiseSmartYogaMy FriendsThriveHanging OutSanityPersonal LifeBeing Smart Author:Courtney Thorne Smith
“I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.” PeopleWantWholeHappensFoundCareersBest Things Author:Delia Smith
“I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.” PeopleFeelsLongHas BeensDifferentAbleFilmCareersComedyTelevisionInspireDramaBlessedScriptsDifferent ThingsGood PeopleBack And ForthBounce Author:Geoff Stults
“Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.” PeopleKindMeanChildrenInterestingCareersLandAppreciateDucksVery InterestingReally InterestingUps & DownsPostersFlopping Author:Lea Thompson
“So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.” PeopleThinkingMenWantFirstsActorsWinningCareersInvolvedToughIncrediblesHolesPrizeRabbitsCredibilityCameronRabbit HolesTough ManPrize Winning Author:Miles Teller
“When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.” PeopleWritingWould BeFilmActorsCareersIndustryStartingWriting LifeFilm IndustryStarting To Write Author:James Franco
“I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLooksWould BeLife IsCareersSuccessfulBenefitsComfortableFairsSelfishSuccessful LifeSuccessful CareerComfortable Life Author:George Weah
“It wasn't until I moved to Nashville that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing my whole career, the feeling of being able to sit around with a guitar and have people know each other's songs and know songs from people who've influenced all of us. When I moved here pretty early on Vince Gill started calling me to do guitar pulls, and I thought, gosh, this is just like heaven on earth down here.” PeopleKnowsWholeFeelingsAbleEarthSongHeavenCommunityCareersMissingCallingMovedGuitarI RealizedNashvilleHeaven On Earth Author:Sheryl Crow
“People who are involved in self-discovery lead different types of lives. The lives they lead are not necessarily the lives of renunciation. Rather, it is a structuring of the elements in your life in a particular way.” PeopleWayInspirationalDifferentSelfSuccessCareersParticularBuddhismTypeInvolvedElementsDiscoverySelf DiscoveryRenunciation Author:Frederick Lenz
“People who tap the kundalini and are able to release it are more successful. Anyone who is really on top has some access to the kundalini. They have learned somewhere down the line, in this or other lives, ways of releasing power.” PeopleWayAbleSuccessLinesCareersSuccessfulBuddhismAccessRelease Author:Frederick Lenz
“We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working.” PeopleWorldHardCareersPathEnlightenmentHinduismKrishnaGita Author:Frederick Lenz
“Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.” PeopleThinkingWellsMadeDonePoliticalCareersComedyAbsolutesGood ThingsCampaignsOddTerritorySenateArcsSatiristUnchartedUncharted Territory Author:Al Franken
“Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.” PeopleBookCan DoCareersMillionsFourShareHuge Author:Sandra Lee
“I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.” PeopleGivingYearsFirstsStillsHelpingRememberCareersFourHappenedNewsGive MeScriptsCreditContractsFour YearsGood News Author:Leslie Moonves
“First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling.” PeopleFeelsFirstsKindMeanRomanceFictionCareersReaderStorytellingFascinatedStoryteller Author:Debbie Macomber
“The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.” PeopleThinkingCareersFairsTownsTrainIntenseHeyHopsBacklashLilithBummer Author:St. Vincent
“My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.” PeopleWayChildrenArtFactsParentCareersTaughtRaisesPassionateFamily Life Author:Olivia Williams
“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
“You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.” PeopleDifferentCareersFocus Author:Andy Murray
“Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career.” PeopleMenFirstsHas BeensMadeDoneWholeFallWaitingCareersFirst TimeSickCourt Author:Allen Iverson
“Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case of noncompromising career women, parts of our personal lives don't work out. One person can't give you the feeling that thousands of people give you.” PeopleThinkingGivingFeelsPersonsFeelingsBeautifulCareersCasesStageWork OutFulfilledPersonal LifeCareer Women Author:Leontyne Price
“A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.” PeopleThinkingLongHardHelpingSeemsWantedPastDealsCareersAdversityRosyLong Careers Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.
“It's [“Into Thin Air”] there in print forever. It's part of history. People should be above taking someone else down. And for what? For money and egos people are willing to destroy other people to further their careers.” PeopleShouldCareersForeverAirWillingEgoDown AndPrintThin Air Author:David Breashears
“A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.” PeopleThinkingLooksBookDifferentJobsArtistCoursesCareersPagesRapperGood JobEmulatePacsBiggie Author:Ja Rule
“Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.” PeopleWantNeedsFirstsCareersAudienceRocksOriginalsFolksTrackGenreAbandonSixtyMuseBeatenListening To Music Author:Dar Williams
“A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.” PeopleWantLinesChanceCareersInvolvedHollywoodScaredReputationTake A ChanceFear No One Author:Billy Eichner
“One kid said to me, he said, Mr. Lloyd, we really owe you. And I explained to him, man, you owe me absolutely nothing. I said, whatever kind of career I had, it has served me well, but you do owe some people. And the people you owe are the folks who are going to come behind you. It's incumbent upon each watch — when you play your 10, 11 years and you're in your group — when you leave, I truly hope that you've done all you can possibly do to leave it a better place for the folks who come behind you.” PeopleMenYearsWellsKindSaidDonePlayKidsBehindsCareersWatchesGroupsFolksBetter PlaceBehind YouAbsolutely NothingIncumbents Author:Earl Lloyd
“People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.” PeopleChildrenTwoFacesCareersDemandScales Author:Jodi Kantor
“I don't have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That's not what I do. I make records for people; that's why I just continue to be consistent, where a lot of the other top writers, they kind of fell off because they started focusing on their own careers as artists. That's not where my head is at.” PeopleKindDesireArtistCareersRecordsConsistent Author:Rico Love
“Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.” PeopleFirstsSometimesCareersAlbums Author:Peter Asher
“I would like to have opportunities in my career to do parts that people would remember - either the whole character or certain moments that they personally could really connect to or were really affected by it deeply.” PeopleWholeMomentsCharacterRememberCertainOpportunityCareersAffected Author:Austin Peck
“Many people excuse themselves by claiming that they don't have to do work anymore because they are beyond it. They are simply afraid of getting their hands dirty. Getting your hands dirty washes your being.” PeopleHandsSuccessCareersBuddhismExcuseKarmaDirty Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think, certainly, in history, if you look back, a lot of people would go through their careers, build a business, or be a doctor, lawyer, and then they would go and do public service later on in their careers.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksCareersDoctorsLawyerPublic Service Author:Dana Perino
“As time goes on and you become more comfortable in your career path, and things are starting to make sense, and it's not just about work, you find that you're able to focus on other things and other people.” PeopleAbleCareersPathFocusGoes OnComfortableStartingMake SenseCareer PathTime Goes On Author:George Clooney
“We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans, and college for every young person who wants to go. In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future. In policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class. These are the policies I have fought for my entire career.” PeopleWantPersonsCareYoungEnergyGrowsClassCareersEconomyCuttingMiddlePolicyCollegeTaxesHealth CareLiftsMiddle ClassWagesTax CutsNew Energy Author:Barack Obama
“I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.” PeoplePlayCareersHappenedLuckyGood People Author:Morgan Freeman
“I would say that nobody is going to work harder for your career than yourself - the one with the vision. No matter how many people you hire, nobody is going to get is as much as yourself does. So it's really important to be your own leader at all times and not hand it all off, otherwise the whole empire will fall apart.” PeopleDoeImportantMatterWholeHandsFallLeaderVisionCareersHard WorkHarderAll TimeEmpiresFalling ApartGoing To WorkWork Harder Author:Skylar Grey