“Sometimes when you hear so much and everybody is praising you, you can get lost in that. You can start thinking that you are on a higher pedestal than everyone else. So I try to stay level headed, humble and the best way to do that is to not really acknowledge it that much. I just keep grinding and working as hard as I can. I also set my goals higher so that I don't have time to be content with my place in life and in my career.” ThinkingWayTryingI CanSometimesHardLostGoalLevelsCareersHigherPraiseHumbleBest WayAcknowledgePedestalPlace In LifeLevel Headed Author:Kevin Hart
“I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.” ThinkingJobsFilmPassionCareersMy Passion Author:David O. Russell
“I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsBigsPayAttentionCareersRocksDown AndNoisePay AttentionPunkGesturesRelaxedUp And DownPunk RockCockroaches Author:Nicolas Cage
“I believe that I'm going to have a long career, as long as I want, and I think by me going out into the world living a little bit made me... gave me more depth, so when I do go, going into movies is much easier for me.” ThinkingWorldWantBelieveLittlesLongMadeI BelieveBitsCareersEasierLittle BitDepthGoing OutLong Careers Author:Chris Tucker
“I think there's always an expectation when you're a first generation, especially a first-generation Nigerian, of sort of being a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer. And so, you know, sort of my initial pursuits into the arts and that I was going to pursue film as a career didn't confuse them, but it was definitely something that they were scared about.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsArtFilmCareersGenerationsExpectationsDoctorsScaredLawyerPursuitPursueEngineersInitials Author:Terry Gross
“Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what theyve already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.” ThinkingWantTryingAttitudeCareersBuiltInnovationRadicalLegacyAccomplishedStatus QuoResisting Author:Peter Diamandis
“I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in the media. But the people that I used to inspire me and keep me going were my peers in Toronto - I would see the same girls going to audition after audition, and their resilience to do it again, and I found that inspiring.” PeopleThinkingWayUsedGirlFoundCareersMediaInspireResilienceAdmirePeersAuditionsToronto Author:Anna Silk
“Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn't as much pressure to present a respectable exterior. And secondly, there was no social media. So if you were found face down on the floor - people did do that quite a bit; usually men, but not always - or fell through plate glass windows or got into scrapes, it became a rumor, and rumors are hard to pin down.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWritingHardReasonFacesFoundSocialBitsCareersMediaNew YorkCoupleWindowPressureGlassesSocial MediaPlatesRumorPinsRespectableOnce Upon A TimeExterior Author:Margaret Atwood
“I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career had been encouraged by the Australia Council.” ThinkingWellsDoeArtistStepsCareersVariousAustraliaCouncil Author:George Brandis
“I think I've been fortunate over the years to be at a point in my career where I really get to choose the partnerships that I really want to take on and they're a perfect fit.” ThinkingWantYearsPerfectCareersFitFortunatePartnershipPerfect Fit Author:Tom Brady
“Stay focused. You gotta believe in yourself. I think that's the biggest thing I've been able to do throughout my whole career, even before I actually had a big career in this industry.” ThinkingBelieveWholeBigsAbleCareersIndustryFocusedBelieve In YourselfBelieve In YouStay Focused Author:Ace Hood
“I don't think a baby will change my career because I don't plan to go about my career any differently. I'm gonna work hard because I love to work, and I love what I do. I think a baby will just add more happiness to it.” ThinkingHardCareersPlansHard WorkBabyAdd Author:Tamar Braxton
“I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love, something that brings you joy, it's about you having a duty to find time in your life for that thing that brings you joy...even if it can only be a small amount.” IfsThinkingArtJoyCareersDutyAmountArt IsSmall Amounts Author:Sarah Kay
“What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.” ThinkingYearsImportantLevelsCareersAchievePositionImportant ThingsRelateTitlesJust BeingCeoSerendipity Author:Paul Polman
“Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.” PeopleThinkingCareersLaughingComedyMaking People Laugh Author:Reggie Watts
“Women work overtime, do double triple duty, juggle ten balls at once -- children, careers, husbands, schoolwork, housework, church work, and more work -- and when one of the balls drops, we think something is wrong with us.” ThinkingChildrenChurchCareersDutyTenHusbandBallsHouseworkSchoolwork Author:Susan L. Taylor
“Thought is the source of all wealth, all success, all achievement. Our dominant thoughts determine our individuality, our career, our daily life.” ThinkingWealthCareersSourceAchievementIndividualityDetermineDaily LifeDominant Author:Joan Bennett Kennedy
“I think that I'm just on such a mission with my career that you don't really get to stop and think about your jersey number too often.” ThinkingNumbersCareersMissionsJersey Author:Carli Lloyd
“There are a lot of people who think celebrities shouldn't complain, that the photography is just a price to pay for having this career. I guess that's bizarre. What they don't understand is that this is all stuff that's really new.” PeopleThinkingStuffPayCareersPhotographyComplainingBizarre Author:Megan Fox
“Get into something that's really personal that means something to you, where you have something to say and is something really individualized. I wish I was more aware of that when I started my career instead of doing a few things I was told would be good for me. And they weren't, because it left me empty, so I didn't do a good job anyways. I think that's what's key to what we do: It's got to be personal.” ThinkingMeanWould BeJobsLeftWishCareersKeysEmptyBe GoodGood Job Author:Brad Pitt
“So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.” ThinkingKnowsTryingEnoughCareersWorryFocusMaterialsFuelDeparture Book:Conversations with John Updike Source: Conversations with John Updike
“I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was so little to go on out there. If you only see videos of me being crazy and hearing little things here and there, then obviously you're not going to have any idea who I really am.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFeelsLittlesIdeasCareersCrazyGoes OnAssumingHearingVideoLittle ThingsJudgedKnow MeHere And ThereBeing CrazyCareers And Life Author:Nicki Minaj
“I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.” ThinkingCareersCuttingCollegeBe GoodEmpoweringNonsenseGoing To CollegeEmpower YourselfCutting Yourself Author:Claire Danes
“People don't know how heavily involved I am in my own career. I'm on 15 to 25 conference calls every few days strategizing with my team. I think a lot of artists sit back and have it done for them. Sometimes as women in the industry - if you're sexy or like doing sexy things - some people subconsciously negate your brain. They think you're stupid.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsSometimesDoneArtistMy OwnBrainCareersKnow HowTeamStupidIndustryInvolvedSexyConferencesYou Re StupidConference Calls Author:Nicki Minaj
“I like to think there are a lot of balls in the air, and the kids are not one that I choose to drop. They have been a priority and I have a career that allows for a little more flexibility at times and hours that are quite mom-friendly.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensKidsHoursCareersAirMomBallsPrioritiesFriendlyFlexibility Author:Elisabeth Hasselbeck
“I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.” ThinkingArtistStrongVisionCareersWonderfulDirectorsTone Author:Sarah Gadon
“Its either feast or famine, and thats the way its been for as long as I can remember. Ive spent my whole career thinking Ill never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come.” ThinkingWayLongI CanWholeRememberActorsCareersIllInsecurityRapidsFamine Author:Amanda Donohoe
“I think God must have had something in mind for me that was not on my radar when I first started out in New York. Back then, doing animated voices meant your career was done - it was looked down upon.” ThinkingMindFirstsDoneVoiceCareersNew YorkAnimatedRadar Author:Jodi Benson
“I think I signed some contract, early on in my career, that I will only kiss Steve Carell when I do a movie.” ThinkingCareersKissingContracts Author:Gillian Jacobs
“All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous.” ThinkingWantSaidActorsCareersAudienceDangerousCriticsProducersSilhouettes Author:Patti LuPone
“I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.” ThinkingCareersWho I AmLazyLax Author:Catherine Tate
“Over the course of my career as both an actress and an author, I have met many wanna-bes. I distinguish the wannas from the gonnas because the WBs all think someone else is to blame for their problems. ... By contrast, GBs say: 'What? There's no door here? I'll build one.” ThinkingProblemCoursesResponsibilityCareersDoorsMetsBlameActressesContrast Author:K Callan
“Coast to Coast AM may just be the most unusual show I have ever witnessed or been a part of. You really almost have to be born into that arena, I think, in order to handle it. I was very lucky in that's the way I was guiding my own career. It was this thirst to really get to the bottom of some of these stories that kept pushing me.” ThinkingWayMayStoriesShowsOrderBornMy OwnCareersLuckyBottomHandlePushingUnusualThirstCoastArena Author:George Noory
“Teams are going to try to hit me because they think I can't take a hit. I think I've proven over my career that I can.” ThinkingTryingI CanCareersTeamProven Author:Robert Griffin III
“I think some people will die on the stage, and I'm not so sure I want to do that. Like, I want to have kids! I'm totally fine with saying that. I think some people are scared because they're worried it's going to ruin their career, but I want to live a full life.” PeopleThinkingWantKidsDiesCareersStageFineScaredRuinsWorriedFull Life Author:Katy Perry
“As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mean, it was beyond.” ThinkingYearsMeanSometimesKidsForgetCareersBandLike MeIconicShatteringMetallica Author:Corey Taylor
“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
“The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.” ThinkingYearsFirstsSelfCareersSixSingingConsciousWeightHarderCommentSelf Conscious Author:Kenny Rogers
“You never know how diverse your career can be. I think it's wonderful. My life has always been the next page, not the last page.” ThinkingKnowsLastsNextCareersKnow HowWonderfulPagesDiverse Author:Jack Welch
“I think actors, at a certain point in their careers, decide they're either going to keep taking risks or take the exact same risk over and over again so that it's not a risk anymore. That's when I don't want to work with them. I think there are some actors who are just doing the exact same thing, and they will never shift from it.” ThinkingWantCertainActorsCareersRiskTaking Risks Author:Tom DiCillo
“Over my career I played some badass characters. So, people sometimes think I should have a .44 magnum. But that's not true, I don't have that. But I do fire them and I do enjoy target shooting and all that sort of thing. I'm not much of a hunter. I don't like killing animals, but I love to shoot.” PeopleThinkingShouldSometimesCharacterEnjoyAnimalCareersFireShould HaveKillingShootingTargetHuntersBadassKilling AnimalsTarget Shooting Author:Clint Eastwood
“My goal, for almost my entire career, has been to promote ski racing not just in America, but across the world. I think it's an amazing sport. I am happy to be an ambassador for the next Olympics and I will do my best to honour the Olympics spirit and to hopefully encourage kids to participate in sports, especially in Asia and Korea and I am looking forward to an amazing Olympics.” ThinkingWorldHas BeensKidsAmericaSpiritNextSportsGoalCareersHopefullyHonourRacingOlympicsAsiaLooking ForwardKoreaAmbassadorsSkisSki Racing Author:Lindsey Vonn
“I think we live in an era without a predictable career path. Everybodys doing more, doing more at the same time, doing more faster. As such, individual projects can have wildly different developmental trajectories.” ThinkingDifferentIndividualCareersPathProjectsErasFasterPredictableTrajectoryCareer PathDevelopmental Author:Alex Timbers
“It's gone on my whole life, this David and Goliath syndrome that a lot of these smaller guys always have. They think the only reason I've ever had any success in my career is because of my physical size. And you know what? If that's the case, so be it. I really don't care. Because I have that size.” IfsThinkingKnowsReasonWholeCareGuyCareersCasesGoneSizeDon't CareWhole LifeWhat IfSyndromesGoliath Author:Kevin Nash
“As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.” ThinkingSongCareersMembersBest ThingsPivotal Author:Burton Cummings
“I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.” ThinkingWayWantSaidMightLastsPassionMistakeCareersRegretConceptsLast TimeMy PassionElusiveCareer Success Author:K'naan
“I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved - to teach it, probably, Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there a good language gene, which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her.” IfsThinkingHas BeensMotherLanguageNaturalCareersTeachAreasChosenPerformersFascinatedGenesGrandfatherInheritanceLinguistics Author:George Carlin
“Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.” ThinkingEnoughGirlGamesBoysCareersTechnologyViolenceInformationCollegeInvolvedComputerEnough TimeInformation TechnologyComputingComputer Games Author:Freeman A. Hrabowski III