“Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.” RealPhilosophyFoundCareersStudyProgressStudentsLowsIncludingExperimentsAlternativesShockSociologyDrudgerySlownessSociologicalLow Points Author:Paul Nurse
“Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.” WritingRealAgeYoungFictionCareersSuccessfulBloodSonYoung AgeFiction WritingPedigree Author:James Rollins
“My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.” RealJobsStuffParentRoomsCareersAmountPaidTennisDishesCleaningReal JobsSmall Amounts Author:Caroline Wozniacki
“My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, you're getting really big laughs. I don't necessarily love the straight crazy comedies. 'Caddyshack' is amazing, but there's not a lot of new 'Caddyshack's.” HeartRealStoriesDreamBigsWould BeCareersLaughingComedyCrazyReal StoryReal Heart Author:Jake M. Johnson
“But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.” WayRealRealitySeemsHappensLawPoliticalSufferingChoicesNationsSinPayLeaderClassCareersCasesSpecialEmotionalPagesServantContinuingUnjustTornVeteranPtsdJuniorsExhibitsPolitical PowerCongressmanPublic ServantsLawmakersTorn ApartAlbatrossHistory ClassFuture Careers Author:Leon Kass
“I never really had a real career trajectory idea. I just like a lot of different kind of movies, I wanna make a lot of different kind of movies, and to some degree you follow opportunity and to the other degree you have to create your own opportunity.” KindIdeasDifferentRealOpportunityCareersDegreesDifferent KindsTrajectory Author:David Gordon Green
“I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was just sort of saying, even having modest ambitions to have a small career at singing, it's still really difficult to do that. Everyone wants to sing or act or whatever.” WantStillsRealDifficultCareersAmbitionSingingSingersUnusualModestUnusual Things Author:Lana Del Rey
“I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is completely death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work. So there was an inherent challenge in trying to keep it fresh, because it's something that I'm familiar with, but the real draw for me was at long last to work with Halle. She and I had come close to working on two other films together prior to this one that unfortunately had fallen apart for various reasons.” IfsMenTryingYearsLongMadeTwoRealReasonShowsTogetherLastsFilmActorsChallengesCareersOne ThingDrawsVariousFamiliarBoredFallenBoredomCopInherentUniformsSeventeen Author:Benjamin Bratt
“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
“I always tell people that if you gave me a pen and a piece of paper when I was a teenager and said, "Write out how you'd like your career to go," I would have probably short changed myself compared to what it's been for real. I'm just extremely excited about what I've accomplished.” PeopleIfsWritingSaidRealCareersPiecesChangedLike YouPaperExcitedTeenagerAccomplishedPens Author:Ice Cube
“I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.” PeopleMadeRealCareersReal Life Author:Hilary Swank
“One of my earliest memories is being backstage at Bran Nue Dae in Darwin when I was about eight. Its such a fun, happy show and a real celebration of being Aboriginal... it felt really great and achievable as a career. It all felt normal.” RealShowsFunFeltMemoriesCareersNormalEightCelebrationReally GreatAboriginal Author:Shari Sebbens
“The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn’t make sense in a less hierarchical world... Build your skills, not your resume. Evaluate what you can do, not the title they’re going to give you. Do real work. Take a sales quota, a line role, an ops job. Don’t plan too much, and don’t expect a direct climb. If I had mapped out my career when I was sitting where you are, I would have missed my career.” IfsThinkingWorldGivingRealJobsCan DoLinesCareersRolesToo MuchPlansSkillsSittingDirectMetaphorTraditionalMake SenseTitlesClimbsWhere You AreLaddersEvaluateResumesReal WorkQuota Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“Harold Ramis really got my career going and was a friend for a long time. I was doing a play in L.A., and he came to see it a few times and recommended me to Ivan Reitman for Ghostbusters 2. Six months later, I quit real estate and was acting for good, and it was really because Harold took an interest in me and made a phone call and did stuff that people don't usually do, even if they like somebody.” PeopleIfsLongMadeRealPlayStuffInterestActingCareersMonthsSixLong TimePhonesQuittingEstatesSix MonthsPhone CallsI Quit Author:Kurt Fuller
“Submitting self to God is the only real freedom-because the deepest slavery is self-dependence, self-reliance. When you live your life believing that everything (family, finances, relationships, career) depends primarily on you, you're enslaved to your strengths and weaknesses. You're trying to be your own savior. Freedom comes when we start trusting in God's abilities and wisdom instead of our own. Real life begins when we transfer our trust from our own efforts to the efforts of Christ.” TryingBelieveRealSelfChristAbilityEffortCareersDependsWeaknessSlaveryReal LifeFinanceSaviorTrust In GodLive Your LifeDependenceSelf RelianceRelianceTransfersStrength And WeaknessReal Freedom Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would come out here and sit in this chair and say some things that were unbelievable - where you would have to swallow pretty hard... but it was hilarious... the force of her comedy was overpowering.” RealHardForceLeadershipCareersHistoryComedyGenerationsFashionHuman NatureIndividualityGutsChairsFree SpeechUnbelievablePioneersStand Up ComedyOverpowering Author:David Letterman
“You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.” PeopleRealArtistTurnsActorsAbilityEmotionCareersWatchesStrengthDangerJudgingEssentialsMarriedComplexesEdgesProfitAppealsVulnerabilityContradictionFascinatingWarmthFierceNaturalism Author:Nic Pizzolatto
“I enjoy playing real human beings after playing a lot of larger than life characters. I love playing true to life characters and that is what I intend to do for the majority of my career.” HumansRealCharacterEnjoyHuman BeingsCareersMajorityTrue LifeLarger Than LifeReal Human Author:Michael Jai White
“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
“Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.” WellsRealDoneDecisionCareersInstinctInvestmentEstatesVentureDistinguishedLegislatureGreat Business Author:Christie Hefner
“It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that's a career that's open to them.” ThinkingFirstsImportantRealTodayYoungGirlCareersGrowing UpGrowingHonorAstronaut Author:Sally Ride
“I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.” PeopleMenRealHumorFunnyYoungCareersBitterYoung ManSour Author:Steve Martin
“There's a lot of real unity - and a lot fake unity, sadly. I think a lot of people are going to get an opportunity to pursue greatness and pursue careers outside of D.C. Not everybody is going to make it. I think there's a connotation that there's a lack of rappers out there.” PeopleThinkingRealOpportunityCareersGreatnessUnityPursueFakeRapperConnotation Author:Wale
“It's very difficult to juggle two careers, unless you're going to have someone put it all together for you. Because you're on TV, somebody just gives you a record deal - that's not how I'd want to get it, because it's just not real.” WantGivingTwoRealTogetherDifficultDealsCareersRecordsTvs Author:Ed Westwick
“Klitschko has had a good career. A lot of his fights have been out of the country as though he hasn't even been invited into the real heavyweight picture in the United States. He's a good fighter. You can't talk about him unless you can beat him and it doesn't seem that there's anyone around who can truly beat him.” Has BeensRealCountryStatesSeemsFightingUnitedCareersUnited StatesBeatsFighterInvitedGood FightHeavyweights Author:George Foreman
“As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other, there's no real way to make a career out of that. Especially when I grew up.” WayRealKidsFictionCareersFansGrewGrew UpScience FictionMonstersScience Fiction Movie Author:Kevin Grevioux
“I love independent film making. So much real love and passion go into them and you can feel it while you watch. As for my career, I don't want to be famous. I just want to be a part of as many beautiful, crazy, unique films as possible.” WantFeelsRealBeautifulFilmPassionCareersWatchesCrazyUniqueIndependentReal LoveIndependent FilmLove And Passion Author:Alicia Sixtos
“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