“My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.” DoneWholeFilmTurnsLeftCareersOpposites Author:Kelly Lynch
“I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.” DoneCareersOpposites Author:Elizabeth McGovern
“I owe a great deal of thanks to this man who will be gracious enough to say I've helped him with his career and comeback, but it's every bit the opposite.” MenEnoughBitsDealsCareersOppositesThanksGraciousComeback Author:Shane Black
“Early in my career, a critic said that I needed to "explain" the irony in my work, suggesting that I needed to add text next to the images to help people understand what I was trying to say. At first I was dismayed that I wasn't making work with a clear enough message. That's when I realized that that was the exact opposite of what I wanted to do - that I wasn't responsible for a misinterpretation of my work, that there should be some ambiguity to it. They either got it, or they didn't.” PeopleShouldTryingFirstsSaidEnoughHelpingWantedNextCareersClearNeededMessagesOppositesResponsibleAddCriticsI RealizedIronyAmbiguitySuggestingDismayedMisinterpretation Author:Cindy Sherman
“Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the opposite. What I think is brutal and "false kindness" is keeping people around who aren't going to grow and prosper. There's no cruelty like waiting and telling people late into their careers that they don't belong - just when the options are limited and they're putting their children through college or paying off big mortgages.” PeopleThinkingChildrenBigsGrowsWaitingCareersKindnessCollegeLatePercentOppositesBottomCrueltyRemoveBrutalMortgage Author:Jack Welch
“I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.” WantedSchoolFeltCareersOppositesDecadesImpulseGraduatesGraduate SchoolAmbivalence Author:Garth Greenwell
“I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States. Some journalists were real heroes, such as Bob Woodward who helped uncover the Watergate scandal. But today he is leading the opposite charge, trying to bring down the careers of people and score easy victories. In other words, those who used to bust the status quo have now become the status quo.” PeopleThinkingTryingRealStatesTodayUsedEasyUnitedCareersUnited StatesMediaHeroVictoryTraditionOppositesProfoundJournalismJournalistScoreBobStatus QuoScandalWatergateReal HeroesInvestigative Journalism Author:Marianne Williamson
“In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.” YearsArtPastCareersWrittenBloodOppositesTrackPainfulAlbumsDivorceProofPrimeBobGreat ArtDylanYears Past Author:Bob Dylan
“People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite” PeopleThinkingStarsCareersOppositesSuicide Author:Brent Spiner
“I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.” MightCareersOppositesAccidents Author:Eva Mendes