“I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.” RealizingCareersHunger Author:Holland Taylor
“I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it.” KnowsTryingFirstsRealizingCareersSawsGoes OnFirst TimePursueThis LifeLive Your LifeKnow YourselfLife Goes On Author:Nicholas D'Agosto
“I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you're able to entertain people, you're doing a good thing.” PeopleIfsFeelsImportantBookEndsMightAbleUsedRealizingCareersBuildingImportant ThingsGood ThingsEntertainmentMedicalUsed To BeComicBridgesComic BookEmbarrassedMedical CareBuilding Bridges Author:Stan Lee
“There's a point in everyone's career where they're not going to be playing as well as they should be. You just have to keep you confidence and not hang your head and realize that you're going to figure it out and that you're going to get better and that you're going to learn. Learn from all your mistakes.” ShouldWellsRealizingMistakeCareersFiguresGet BetterBe You Author:Carson Palmer
“The earth is not the same everywhere. Certain powers are available in one part of the earth that are not available in another part. The rich realize this. They live in these places and they use that power to stay rich.” UseEarthSuccessCertainRealizingCareersRichBuddhismAvailable Author:Frederick Lenz
“People are so obsessed with making their careers and having a big house; then you realize that kills your dreams. It even kills what makes your life because you get so busy inside.” PeopleDreamBigsHouseRealizingCareersBusyObsessedYour DreamsBig Houses Author:Stephanie Szostak
“I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.” KnowsFeelsLooksLongRealizingCareersLike YouLong TimeHorizonTexasTraveledInterstate Author:Wil Wheaton
“People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.” PeopleMadeEnoughCausesCan DoRealizingNumbersMistakeCareersSuccessfulAccountsStartingProbabilityForecastsSuccessful Career Author:Alan Greenspan
“I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we havent thought of yet.” ChoicesGirlOpportunityParentRealizingCareersMomReally GreatGreat Parents Author:Ally Condie
“I was lucky with my parents, for my mom and my dad particularly, much more than my mom, who was very compassionate and loving to everyone. And then, as I got into my career, I started and other people started to realize that I was good at it.” PeopleParentRealizingCareersMomDadLuckyMy DadMy MomCompassionate Author:Shep Gordon
“You know I still get nervous speaking in front of people. Speaking reminds me of pitching in that way. No matter how much you prepare, there is always that anxiety to perform. Those butterflies. You learn to embrace that stress. Eventually you realize that stress is what pushes you to perform at your peak.... But man the roller coaster! I told myself that after my career was over I would live my life quietly, out of the public eye, with no chance of embarrassing myself in front of large groups of people. Yet...here I am!” PeopleKnowsMenWayStillsMatterEyeRealizingChanceCareersGroupsFrontsAnxietyStressEmbraceNervousButterflyLiving My LifeEmbarrassingPitchingHere I AmRoller CoasterCoastersPublic EyeLarge Groups Author:Jim Abbott
“Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I think that's a pleasure worth learning as early as possible in one's career, not least because realizing that one can do it helps one relax into writing the first draft in which it's better to have too much material for later shaping than not enough.” ThinkingWritingFirstsEnoughHelpingCan DoRealizingPleasureCareersToo MuchCuttingMaterialsRelax Author:Ramsey Campbell
“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
“There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever.” Has BeensEnjoyRealizingCareersDirectorsSpoiled Author:Meryl Streep
“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
“When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you're not really doing it for yourself.” NeedsRealizingCareersObstaclesFocused Author:Luis Valdez
“As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.” IfsShowsHandsActorsOpportunityRealizingCareersRolesSpecialTvsLuckyPagesScriptsMemorableCategoriesTv ShowsLucky You Author:Holt McCallany
“I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it's good to realize that you're always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.” WayGivingFeelsActorsRealizingCareersGoneHumilityPerspectiveGladMovieJust OneVogue Author:Reese Witherspoon
“The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.” RealizingCareersAudienceBusyEntertaining Author:Angela Lansbury