“I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.” NeedsPersonsPlayCareersRolesProductsProudMassLowsLikesCupsTeaCups Of Tea Author:Amanda Plummer
“An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product.” FeelsYearsLooksDifferentActorsCareersFiveProductsSixMirrorsSevenJust OneSeven Years Author:Ron Livingston
“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. ... Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these.” IfsInspirationalCareersProductsFortunateRevolutionaryApplesJust OneCellphone Author:Steve Jobs
“Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase.” MayPersonsArtArtistDecisionCareersMysteryInfluenceEmotionalProductsTasteArt IsEducatedPersonal Taste Author:Ernest West Basden
“The people that I associate myself with are people that are looking to make a good product because it's going to benefit them and it's going to help launch their careers.” PeopleHelpingCareersProductsBenefitsAssociates Author:David Gordon Green
“One thing that's great about having kids, especially given my career, is that it forces you out of your narcissism. I mean, I'm in a career where my product is me. So it was nice to have something, someone, come along and take the focus off me. I really needed to give myself some distractions from myself.” GivingMeanKidsGivenForceCareersFocusNiceOne ThingProductsNeededDistractionNarcissismHaving Kids Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.” CareersProductsEvolutionEvidentProfessional Career Author:Adrian Tomine
“It's difficult to get an audience to want to keep up with you, stay present tense. But there's never been a big lag in my career between product. I've constantly tried to pull my audience up into what I'm doing present tense, and they've been usually happy to go there with me.” WantBigsDifficultCareersAudienceProductsTenseLagPresent Tense Author:Kenny Loggins
“Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.” WritingEndsCareersCasesProductsBoundsInevitableBitternessRetiring Author:Jim Crace
“Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over” ForceEffortVisionCareersPathProgressProductsMetsForgivingErrorsInsightGenuineResistanceRemarkableMediocrityCareer PathBacking Down Book:Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012 Source: Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012
“My whole creative career is a product of the Internet. ...I'll take that back. To some degree. My fascination with cultural esoterica and trivia and so on was well-formed long before I got my first AOL account.” FirstsWellsLongWholeCareersCreativeProductsInternetDegreesAccountsFascinationTrivia Author:John Hodgman
“In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.” IfsWellsPersonsProcessCareersProductsExcellencePursueOutcomes Author:Deepak Chopra
“I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.” YearsFirstsBigsKidsWantedSchoolLeftCareersProductsBirthDaughterBillsNineConsumersRanDivisionMicrosoftNine YearsChunksBusiness School Author:Melinda Gates
“I think that Walter's [White] whole career is indicative of a large degree of egocentricity. Perhaps to be generous, you would have to say that he was a product of his period, which was that of self-projection in the name of organizational interest.” ThinkingSelfWholeNamesInterestWhiteCareersProductsPeriodsDegreesGenerousProjectionOrganizational Author:Ella Baker
“If you don't know what career you'd change to, I've come to believe in starting with your values. What do you care most about: producing a new product, a cause, health, something unpopular but important, whatever. Next, get expertise in that, perhaps not at State U let alone private U but at You U: self-study, articles,, webinars, volunteering, etc. Then use your network rather than answering ads to land a launchpad job in that career.” IfsKnowsBelieveImportantSelfStatesUseCareJobsValuesNextCausesCareersStudyLandProductsStartingEtcArticlesAdsVolunteerExpertiseNew ProductsDo You Care Author:Marty Nemko