“Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious.” HomeCareersMorningMillionsBedConsciousWake UpEvery MorningMikeTysonOver 50 Author:Curtis Jackson
“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.” ThinkingYearsMadeHardSchoolLawChoicesThreeParentDecisionHalfCareersConsciousDecidedUniversityOccupationHarshHalf A YearSchool DaysCareers Choices Author:Lee Kuan Yew
“a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful - what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives? - and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it...” MenWayYearsHas BeensDifferentWholeFactsRunningYoungCertainChoicesBeliefDifferencesCommonBehindsCareersFieldsUniqueConsciousMen And WomenMeaningfulChosenSuperiorsYoung ManMaking A DifferenceCrucialPercentagesImpetusCareers Choices Author:David Foster Wallace
“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
“I made a conscious decision to take my life and career in a different direction. I started working on a play, and also, by attending Burning Man for several years, I was incredibly stimulated by the art there. I increasingly wanted to be a part of it, and focused on what I wanted to say as an artist.” MenYearsArtMadeDifferentPlayWantedArtistDecisionCareersConsciousFocusedBurningAttendingDifferent DirectionsBurning Man Author:Scott Cohen
“I don't think, as a 15-year-old, you're that conscious about a lifetime career. I didn't think: "I'm a serious actor." I never studied acting or anything when I was that age.” ThinkingYearsAgeActorsActingCareersSeriousConsciousLifetimeOld You Author:Keri Russell
“I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.” PeopleWayFeelsRealActorsWishInterestingSituationCareersPlansDirectorsConsciousListsScreenwritersCameraman Author:Viggo Mortensen
“Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something.” NeedsFirstsEndsSelfThreeFeltProcessGrowthChangeDecisionResultsCareersConsciousThirdsVoidDedicationThings ChangeThree ThingsDissatisfactionEnd ResultsChange And GrowthFill The Void Book:Love Source: Love
“I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'” SelfJobsLosesCareersIssuesTelevisionLike YouConsciousWeightRaisedSelf ConsciousLose Weight Author:Margaret Cho