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“At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.”

School Father Careers Roles Months High School Mathematics Filled Eight Medical I Realized Greek Feminine Latin Gaps Permission Medical School Professional Career

Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

“My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention to the thing she's focusing on for a very long period of time, and that has served her incredibly well in her professional career. She knows - the things she knows, she knows them just so deeply.”

Thinking Knows Wells Long Mother Pay Attention Careers Focus Periods Intense Long Periods Of Time Professional Career

Author:David Plotz

“[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career.”

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Author:Gloria Estefan

“I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort. It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. The experiences of the nursery, the school, the University, and of professional careers, are a chain of proofs to the contrary.”

Source: Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences

“So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.”

Done Play Would Be Song Next Careers Theater Musical Brands Brand New Professional Career Pantomime Ibsen

Author:Trevor Nunn

“I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.”

Years Careers Five Dancing Jazz Five Years Ballet Five Year Olds Professional Career Flamenco

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I spent more than 20 years of my professional career researching and developing renewable energy sources.”

Years Energy Careers Source Developing Renewable Energy Energy Sources Professional Career Renewable Energy Sources

Author:Jerry McNerney

“Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.”

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Author:Gerald Chertavian

“I don't think life owes me anything and the business doesn't owe me anything. The only way to approach it is by working hard and loving what you do. If you do that and have faith, maybe you will get lucky. I mean that sincerely and specifically. I truly believe that no professional career in the arts is capable without a healthy dose of luck.”

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Author:Bryan Cranston

“My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.”

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Author:Tracy Morgan

“I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.”

Years Done Individual Careers Amount Six Gold Pressure Olympics Medal Gold Medals Get It Done Professional Career

Author:Michael Johnson

“When I thought my professional career was over, it hadn't even started yet.”

Careers Over It Professional Career

Author:Ina Garten

“I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.”

Source: The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame

“One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.”

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Author:Adrian Tomine

“Concrete examples of successful women and their stories of achievement are the best inspiration and [means of] empowerment for other women to seek the heights in their professional career and take a leading role in society.”

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Author:Dalia Grybauskaite