“It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.” PeopleSelfBeliefActingCareersStageExampleGoes OnAffirmationBelief In SelfEnticing Author:Miranda Otto
“I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.” WantedFacesBlackActingCareersGoes OnManagementUniversityBoxesBrownPhdsBlack Face Author:Archie Panjabi
“I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.” KnowsMenMadeWantedNextFunHoursCareersPracticeCollegeGoes OnPianoGrandmotherSmarterMy GrandmotherScholarship Author:Jamie Foxx
“When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?” LeftCareersGoes On Author:Hermann Maier
“My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.” PeopleWayIdeasCareersAdventureGoes OnCuriosityAdmireMagazinesMy WayWeasels Author:John Hodgman
“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
“As time goes on and you become more comfortable in your career path, and things are starting to make sense, and it's not just about work, you find that you're able to focus on other things and other people.” PeopleAbleCareersPathFocusGoes OnComfortableStartingMake SenseCareer PathTime Goes On Author:George Clooney
“When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.” IfsYoungActorsCareersTelevisionGoes On80sYoung Actors Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders” CareersGoneSeaGoes OnRiversFishesBoatLakesFishingGeeseFishermanTroutHang UpsWild Geese Author:John D. Voelker
“There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.” PeopleNumbersCareersSuccessfulGoes OnJerseyNew JerseySuccessful Career Author:Kerry Bishe
“For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.” MenLongDifferentYoungCoursesCareersGoes OnLoversAffairYoung ManDifferent ThingsLove AffairOlder WomenApprenticeship Author:Vita Sackville-West
“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
“Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.” AbleFeltRaceResponsibilityCareersTeamFieldsGoes OnRelax Author:Warren Moon
“I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.” LooksMayMeanLongRunningSuccessFightingChanceCareersFailingRiskGoes OnHonorReputationRuinsMoving OnEncountersEncouragingFavourRoad To SuccessFear Of FailureChances AreRecipe For SuccessWords Of EncouragementCarrying OnGiving Up Is Not An OptionGreat Risk Book:Can You Forgive Her? Source: Can You Forgive Her?
“I suppose, when you start up in acting, you hope to be given challenges, and you always have dreams about the things you could do and couldn't do, but normally we get pigeon-holed a little bit, as we go on in our careers.” LittlesDreamGivenBitsChallengesActingCareersGoes OnLittle BitPigeons Author:John Noble
“It is the most powerful submission in the sport. It is a beautiful thing. You're holding them into you, their back is on you, and you are basically choking them gradually like a boa constrictor and once you've got them, the pressure goes on and they have to submit or they are going to stop breathing. It happened to me early in my career, and I panicked, and gave in, I tapped out too early. I learned a lot from that. I learned from it, learned how to do the move better, learned how to avoid it being done to me.” DoneBeautifulMovingSportsPowerfulCareersHappenedGoes OnPressureBreathingMost PowerfulSubmitBeautiful ThingsSubmissionChokeBeing Done Author:Conor McGregor
“Whether it's your personal life or career, people feel they have carte blanche to everything that goes on in your life. I don't agree with that, but I do feel I have to share my thoughts on those things with people instead of totally avoiding it. I want to put it out there the way I want to put it out there.” PeopleWayWantFeelsCareersShareGoes OnAgreeAvoidingPersonal LifeMy ThoughtsBlanche Author:Faith Evans
“I love playing for my country. I see it as the biggest privilege of my career, so there's no way I'm going to volunteer to give that up. I want to go on for as long as I can. I've got 68 caps and I'd love to think I could get 100. I know there are some players who reach their 30s and announce their international retirement. I totally understand and respect their decisions. We are away a lot and for long spells. But although it's hard, we're doing one of the most privileged jobs in the world.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayWantGivingLongI CanCountryHardJobsDecisionCareersPlayerGoes OnInternationalPrivilegeRetirementSpellsVolunteerPrivilegedCaps Author:John Terry
“I stopped playing in the Masters in 2004, I stopped playing in the Par-3 [Contest], and now it's time to end this part of my Masters career. I would love to go on doing it forever, but I don't have the physical capability to hit the shot the way I would want to hit it. So I'll have to be content to watch.” WayWantEndsCareersWatchesForeverMastersGoes OnShotsCapabilityContests Author:Arnold Palmer
“Auditions are great, and you definitely want to continue to make progress as an actor, you want to continue to see some advancement in your career. But when you get out there, you don't realize how many auditions you have to go on before you actually get work.” WantActorsRealizingCareersProgressGoes OnAuditionsAdvancement Author:Mike Colter
“We went on tour with Phoenix. I don't really know anything about Phoenix I'd heard a couple songs. And I thought, I don't really know if I want to go on this, it's kind of weird, kind of a pain in the ass for us. But everyone was like YOU HAVE TO DO IT, it's going to be so good for your career. And I mean I don't know if it was good for our career but the guys in the band were super huge sweethearts.” IfsKnowsWantKindMeanPainGuySongCareersHeardHugeLike YouGoes OnCoupleBandAssPhoenixSweetheart Author:Mac DeMarco
“We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.” HappensCareersGoes OnSoloAndrew Author:George Michael
“For the only time in my career, I came in and met Tony [Richardson] for the part - I did not read, I just met with him - and in the middle of the meeting, he told me that I had the part [in The Hotel New Hampshire]. There was never, "Well, thank you, and we'll have my people call your people." There was none of that kabuki that goes on now endlessly for even the smallest role.” PeopleWellsCareersRolesMiddleGoes OnMetsMeetingsHotelSmallestOnly TimeHampshireNew Hampshire Author:Rob Lowe
“If I was to say "I'll only do movies," then I'd struggle to find a varied career. My priority is an interesting career, that's why I keep a low rent, I don't go on big holidays, and I keep it very simple.” IfsBigsSimpleInterestingCareersStruggleGoes OnLowsPrioritiesHoliday Author:Rufus Sewell