“I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.” NeedsPersonsPlayCareersRolesProductsProudMassLowsLikesCupsTeaCups Of Tea Author:Amanda Plummer
“I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.” PersonsActorsCareersGainsI RealizedInternals Author:Sonja Sohn
“There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.” MenPersonsHas BeensMomentsStepsCareersToughPlatesStep UpUnderestimatedTough Person Author:Tamara Mellon
“I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.” IfsThinkingNeedsPersonsEnjoyChallengesCareersWiseSatisfiedAmbitiousAmbitious Person Author:Jason Isbell
“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
“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
“There is no truth to the rumors that we hate each other. I have no ill feeling for [Britney Spears] and vice versa. I am proud of all the achievements she has made in her career, she is a very hard-working person. I have nothing but love for her.” PersonsMadeHardFeelingsHateCareersHard WorkProudAchievementIllVicesRumorVice VersaSpearsLove For HerIll Feelings Author:Christina Aguilera
“Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase.” MayPersonsArtArtistDecisionCareersMysteryInfluenceEmotionalProductsTasteArt IsEducatedPersonal Taste Author:Ernest West Basden
“There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented all my work, in every field except poetry. I could send her an utterly indescribable story, and she'd sell it to Playboy or the Harvard Law Review or Weird Tales or The New Yorker--she knew where to take it. She never told me what to write or not write, she never told me, That won't sell, and she never meddled with my prose.” WritingPersonsStoriesLawCareersFieldsLateSellsTalesAgentsProseReviewsHarvardVirginiaNew YorkersPlayboyIndescribable Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.” PersonsReasonLyingBitsPowerfulCareersTechnologySubjectsSpeciesScience And TechnologyPrimatesPowerful Person Author:Ann Druyan
“I think that's what goes wrong in a lot of people's careers, so many people are afraid to say, "This person has a problem" or "This person maybe shouldn't do this" because they're afraid of losing their jobs.” PeopleThinkingPersonsProblemJobsCareersLosing Author:Demi Lovato
“I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.” PersonsCareersAlive Author:Kirby Larson
“It had been a great career. I mean, how many guys can say they averaged two points a game in their careers? It's too bad he's retiring too soon. The league is going to miss him. The fans are going to miss him. A real classy person and a great guy.” MeanPersonsTwoRealGuyGamesCareersFansMissingLeagueRetiringNhlGreat Guy Author:Johnny Bucyk
“Combine meditation with career as a yoga. You will find that your practice will not be any less powerful than a person who lives in a monastery. You might even excel because practice in a monastery can get very one-sided.” PersonsMightSuccessPowerfulCareersPracticeMeditationBuddhismYogaMonasteriesOne Sided Author:Frederick Lenz
“Two people can be work at the same job, side by side. One person is working just for a paycheck. Another is working to perfect their being. Some people think that the material world will make them happy.” PeopleThinkingWorldPersonsTwoJobsSuccessSidesPerfectCareersMaterialsBuddhismPaychecksMaterial World Author:Frederick Lenz
“I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.” IfsPersonsDifferentWaterSimpleCareersAirMissingRetiringSimple LifeWalesOld Person Author:Ellie Goulding
“In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister of Holland, the right person for the post.” MenPersonsImportantCountryStatesLightPastInterestAbilityUnitedCareersUnited StatesDignityCrisisChosenPostsMinistersConsiderationSentimentsEquityAmbassadorsRight PersonDiscardedHolland Author:Sadao Araki
“Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life - career, relationships, anything.” GivingBelievePersonsCareersKeysSucceedVaryAnything In Life Author:Molly Ringwald
“Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.” PersonsReadingCareersGreat Things Author:Willie McCovey
“I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.” PersonsCareersExceptionSingle Person Author:Marian Seldes
“I started just naturally turning into a nicer person, and it actually helped broaden and lengthen my career.” PersonsCareers Author:Kurt Fuller
“Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother.” KnowsMenMeanPersonsDifferentMotherChoicesEnjoyCareersWifeFeminismIdentityIncludingTraditionalFulfillmentFeminineAttributesOutlookPositive OutlookWomanlyOutlook On LifeWives And MothersPositive Outlook On Life Author:Phyllis Schlafly
“Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another” PersonsCareersOne ThingHappy Person Author:Bill Watterson
“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
“Playing those one-dimensional characters is actually really difficult because you're not dealing with somebody you would ever really know. I don't think anybody here could imagine actually knowing Cindy Campbell from 'Scary Movies.' So, in a way, your job is so much easier when you're playing a person that you really understand and that seems very relatable. I think I was coming to a place in my career where I was like, "I'd like to do something a little more rewarding."” ThinkingKnowsWayLittlesPersonsCharacterSeemsJobsDifficultCareersKnowingImagineEasierScaryRelatableCindy Author:Anna Faris
“We (Derek Jeter and I) always talk about getting old, gray, and fat when our careers are over and just having a good time. He's like me. He wants to have a good time and be a good person. It's a weird situation for us. It's just like we're looking in the mirror. the only difference is I'm on the West Coast and he's on the East Coast.” WantPersonsDifferencesSituationCareersMirrorsWestEastLike MeFatsGood TimesGrayCoastGetting OldGood PersonHaving A Good TimeWest CoastBeing A Good PersonEast CoastLooking In The MirrorJeter Author:Alex Rodriguez
“They could have given me any number. They could have given me number one-hundred one. The number is nothing. I could have played my whole career without a number on my back, and it still wouldn't have changed the person.” PersonsStillsWholeGivenNumbersCareersChangedHundred Author:Lou Whitaker
“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
“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
“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
“Technology makes good DJ's better, but also allows your average person to think they're a DJ, and unfortunately there's no checks and balances about people making it a career.” PeopleThinkingPersonsCareersTechnologyBalanceAverageChecksDjsAverage Person Author:Neil Armstrong
“I have six different careers, each one of which I was successful in. I was a successful person in life because I helped everybody, because I did not do anything wrong.” PersonsDifferentCareersSuccessfulSixSuccessful Person Author:Ferdie Pacheco
“I feel like a new person. Not because of my career, but just because of what I've had to go through to pursue my career.” FeelsPersonsCareersPursue Author:Gregg Sulkin
“As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with.” ChildrenPersonsSometimesProblemLawDealsCareersPsychologistRipped Author:Timothy Murphy
“What I love about the gay thing is that every single person I type into Google, it doesn't matter if it's Florence Welch, anybody, if you are not being called gay you don't have a career. That's my theory!” IfsPersonsMatterCareersTheoryTypeGayGoogleSingle PersonFlorence Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“I think what women are doing to themselves is that they're seeing these different images of perfection - the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect career person, the perfect movie star - and they're somehow thinking that they should be all of these things, and that's the problem.” ThinkingShouldPersonsDifferentProblemMotherStarsPerfectCareersWifeSeeingPerfectionMovie StarPerfect Wife Author:Debora Spar
“Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.” WayPersonsDoeCharacterCareersFieldsCharacter Of A Person Book:The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel Source: The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel
“I've had a very different career than a lot of other musicians. I went through the major labels. I was signed to two major labels and bands. I've toured with Aerosmith, and I've had records on the charts, songs in the movies. If you had checklist of things a person wants to accomplish in music...I've done a lot. And I don't mean that in an egotistical way; I never take it for granted. But you can't think outside the box unless you know what's in the box.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWantMeanPersonsTwoDifferentDoneSongCareersRecordsBandMajorsMusicianBoxesAccomplishGrantedLabelsEgotisticalOutside The BoxThink Outside The BoxChecklistsAerosmith Author:Michael Angelo Batio
“I think we all understand disappointing yourself. Especially in the acting profession, which is probably similar to a political career, even the most stable, head-on-straight person is still going to be confronted with doing something that they shouldn't, that could affect their job or cause them not to be at their best - even if it's something as simple as taking a red eye for an audition at 6 a.m. the next morning and you know you'll be dragging.” IfsThinkingKnowsPersonsStillsEyeJobsPoliticalNextCausesSimpleActingCareersMorningRedProfessionStableAuditionsDisappointingRed Eye Author:Corey Stoll