“My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.” IfsWantNeedsTryingFirstsTwoShowsSeemsPoliticalCareersRolesConcernIslamObviousDividesRelevantBefore And After Author:Daniel Pipes
“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.
“I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.” WayDifferentSeemsRunningCareersMillionsHigherPoliticianOffersOfficeDefinitionsChecksLifelongPremisesCredibleRejectingParachutesCareer Politicians Author:Elizabeth Emken
“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
“It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of them, all over the world). Of course this was in the days before computers were everywhere, and anyone could access the Web. You had to make an effort keeping up a correspondence, and the arrival of the mail once a day was a big deal. I think if modern technology had been around when I was a kid, I would never have left my bedroom except to take the dogs out for their run three times a day.” IfsThinkingWorldStoriesBigsSeemsRunningKidsChoicesThreeCoursesLeftDealsEffortCareersTechnologyModernDogComputerAccessPensMailBedroomThree TimesBig DealArrivalsCorrespondencePalsModern TechnologyCareers Choices Author:Charles de Lint
“People always ask me about career choices, though it rarely ever seems like any kind of choice. It's just like, I really want to do something, this is what I can do, and that's it. I'm lucky to be doing this at all.” PeopleWantKindI CanSeemsChoicesAsksCan DoCareersLuckyAsk MeCareers Choices Author:Emile Hirsch
“I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look up at the sky at night and think am I alone in the universe? Well most people get over it, but I never did and though I made a career more in physics and cosmology than astrobiology I've always had a soft spot for the subject of life because it does seem so mysterious.” PeopleThinkingWellsLooksDoeMadeSeemsNightUniverseInterestCareersSkySubjectsPhysicsSpotsMysteriousTeenagerLook UpOver ItElsewhereTeensGet OverCosmology Author:Paul Davies
“My goal is to remain healthy my entire career, and a healthy diet seems like a good start.” SeemsGoalCareersHealthyDietsHealthy Diet Author:Tiger Woods
“Gisele Bundchen I always admired. I think she is an example for all models. If I could have just a little bit of her career would already be a happy girl. She seems to be a determined woman, a fighter, very strong. I think she is an icon of Brazilian people. Gisele is a woman who is extremely inspiring, not only in the fashion world, she also does great things for the world.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldLittlesDoeSeemsGirlStrongBitsCareersFashionExampleLittle BitModelsDeterminedGreat ThingsFighterIf I CouldVery StrongIconsHappy GirlFashion WorldDetermined Woman Author:Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
“They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.” Has BeensSeemsDifficultCareersReadyProfession Author:Diana Rigg
“The main reason people fail is they become attached to others who hold them back. Letting go of others and going forward may seem like a lonely and impossible task, but I assure you it is not.” PeopleMayReasonSeemsSuccessCareersImpossibleFailingBuddhismLetting GoTasksLonely Author:Frederick Lenz
“Country music fans are extremely passionate and loyal. It seems that country artists have longer-lasting careers because the fans stick with the artists through thick and thin.” CountrySeemsArtistCareersFansSticksPassionateLastingThickLoyalMusic FansThick And ThinCountry ArtistThrough Thick And ThinCountry Music Fans Author:Miranda Lambert
“To me writing was not a career but a necessity. And so it remains, though I am now, technically, a professional writer. The strength of this inborn desire to write has always baffled me. It is understandable that the really gifted should feel an overwhelming urge to use their gift; but a strong urge with only a slight gift seems almost a genetic mistake.” FeelsShouldWritingUseSeemsDesireStrongMistakeCareersRemainsUrgesOverwhelmingGiftedBaffledOverwhelming Urge Author:Dervla Murphy
“the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.” MenSeemsGirlCareersFashionParticularTypePagesMagazinesDamageCharmPsychicsEditorialsPlayboy Author:Alison Lurie
“Most of the time I'm not even working, I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky. If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. All these years he's taken care of me, my career keeps getting better and better. Whatever I want just seems to come. And it keeps coming. So I promised myself that I have to pay for this, payback society. So this is why I started my Jackie Chan Foundation to help children and sick kids and people in hospitals.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsYearsLooksChildrenHelpingSeemsCareKidsPayCareersTakenLuckySickFoundationGet BetterHospitalsHelping PeopleJackiePaybackSick Kids Author:Jackie Chan
“I never thought about that ever throughout the entire course of my career about choosing a specific role because it would make me seem more man-like.” MenSeemsCoursesCareersRoles Author:Edward Zwick
“I certainly have opportunities many can only dream of - but in most ways Im a typical girl in her 20s trying to forge a career and represent herself in what can sometimes seem rather strange circumstances. One of the most attractive has been the chance to publish Celebrate.” WayTryingHas BeensSometimesDreamSeemsGirlOpportunityChanceCareersStrangeCircumstancesCelebrateAttractiveTypicalPublish Author:Pippa Middleton
“So much of the trouble is because I am a woman. To me it seems a very terrible thing to be a woman. There is one crown which perhaps is worth it all--a great love, a quiet home, and children. We all know that is all that is worthwhile, and yet we must peg away, showing off our wares on the market if we have money, or manufacturing careers for ourselves if we haven't.” IfsKnowsChildrenHomeSeemsMarriageCareersTroubleHavensTerribleQuietWorthwhileCrownsWorth ItTerrible ThingsManufacturingGreat LoveShowing OffPeg Author:Ruth Benedict
“I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them.” PeopleSeemsUsedArtistWaitingCareersRoundsCornersDecadesSuitsContemptUnusualDiamondConcealed Author:Nick Lowe
“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
“I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.” SeemsMovingNextDecisionCareersNext Move Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“Filming is completely - was totally new to me ... I had a movie career which wasn't supposed to be, so I couldn't be more thrilled. For those who work, parts seem to get more interesting.” SeemsInterestingCareersSupposed To Be Author:Judi Dench
“The world has obviously changed in terms of the way filmmakers and actors and writers often look at their own careers. They all seem to want to include in their own process - along with some of their iconic and franchise-driven movies.” WorldWayWantLooksSeemsActorsProcessTermCareersChangedDrivenFilmmakerIconic Author:Mark Canton
“I do get away maybe a little bit more than most coaches do, but that seems to have worked for me in my coaching career. I recommended the way not to get burned out from your job is to have some hobbies and get away from it when you can.” WayLittlesSeemsJobsBitsCareersLittle BitCoachesCoachingGet AwayBurnedHobbiesBurned Out Author:Steve Spurrier
“It's a privilege to have the career I have, to love every day and be following my passion, the stories that interest me, to remote locations and people. So nothing stops me from that - but yes, it seems redundant in documentary-filmmaker circles today to say the biggest struggle was financing.” PeopleStoriesSeemsTodayPassionInterestCareersStrugglePrivilegeFollowingCirclesFilmmakerLocationDocumentariesMy PassionFinancingRedundant Author:Pietra Brettkelly
“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
“Tweeting is something you can do wherever you are, on your phone, on the computer, in an airport lounge. It's easy to do, and I do find it fun to communicate with people. It's quite nice that we can have almost direct contact with anyone in the world at any time. I don't know how important it is in terms of one's career. It seems to be pretty much superfluous in terms of that, but it's nice to communicate.” PeopleKnowsWorldImportantSeemsFunEasyTermCan DoCareersKnow HowNiceComputerDirectPhonesCommunicateContactAirportsSuperfluousWherever You Are Author:Boy George