“Well, I was coming off of being on 'Law & Order,' and I was a little worried that it might be the end of my career - I've never been one of those actors with a lot of confidence that the next good job will come along.” WellsLittlesEndsMightJobsLawOrderNextActorsCareersWorriedGood Job Author:Jeremy Sisto
“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
“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
“I am not saying I will vote against John Ashcroft because he is pro-life, .. But let me say if someone was nominated for attorney general who was vehemently pro choice -- who in his or her career spent decades trying to find ways to expand the law abortion at nine months would be perfectly legal -- wouldn't you be more upset and raise more of a voice than against a nominee who was simply pro-choice?.” IfsWayTryingWould BeLawChoicesVoiceCareersMonthsVoteLet MeRaisesDecadesNineUpsetAbortionAttorneyPro LifeNine Months Author:Charles Schumer
“The great break of my literary career was going to law school.” SchoolLawCareersBreakLaw School Author:Scott Turow
“You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight... Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.” WayLittlesHas BeensMotivationalLawWinningBitsCompanyStepsCareersWeekDesignSpringTrainingBuiltGoldBrandsFirmSensationsOperaMedalGold MedalsGreat CompanyLaw Firms Author:Seth Godin
“There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented all my work, in every field except poetry. I could send her an utterly indescribable story, and she'd sell it to Playboy or the Harvard Law Review or Weird Tales or The New Yorker--she knew where to take it. She never told me what to write or not write, she never told me, That won't sell, and she never meddled with my prose.” WritingPersonsStoriesLawCareersFieldsLateSellsTalesAgentsProseReviewsHarvardVirginiaNew YorkersPlayboyIndescribable Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men's equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman's child-bearing womb.” MenChildrenHandsLawParentCareersRightsEqualMalesFinancialFeministArguingPrimariesIronyAssetsWombEqual Rights Author:Warren Farrell
“If you seek to develop the mind fully, for the enlightenment process, you will benefit if your career is related to computer science, law, medicine, or the arts.” IfsMindArtSuccessLawProcessCareersBuddhismBenefitsComputerEnlightenmentMedicineRelatedComputer Science Author:Frederick Lenz
“The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation.” ArtSuccessLawCareersStudyMeditationBuddhismMedicineMindsetInstanceHelpful Author:Frederick Lenz
“In the Atlantean civilization, law existed to create order, that is to say, to see justice was done. In the old way, the law was equal for all, not the strong win and the weak lose.” WayDoneSuccessLawOrderWinningStrongLosesJusticeCareersCivilizationEqualWeakAncient EgyptOld WaysAtlantis Author:Frederick Lenz
“We've done this before in other worlds, in other lives. It is our strength, law, medicine, entertainment, and computers, the networking of energy. All of these are arts.” WorldArtDoneSuccessLawEnergyCareersBuddhismComputerMedicineEntertainmentNetworkingOther Worlds Author:Frederick Lenz
“(H)er qualifications for the Supreme Court are non-existent. She is not a brilliant jurist, indeed, has never been a judge. She is not a scholar of the law. Researchers are hard-pressed to dig up an opinion. She has not had a brilliant career in politics, the academy, the corporate world or public forum. Were she not a friend of Bush, and female, she would never have even been considered.” WorldHardLawOpinionCareersJudgingFemaleCourtBrilliantSupremeCorporateScholarSupreme CourtAcademyResearchersQualificationsForumsCorporate WorldJurists Author:Pat Buchanan