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Nov

Quotations. On Careers


On Careers.
The 76th in a series of collections of useable quotations to make you look really smart in your next presentation or report.   

 

 

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
Dizzy Dean

All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.
John Cale

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.
Ron Silver

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
Major Taylor

At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.
Wally Schirra

But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.
George C. Scott

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.
Donald Cram

Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially.
John Zimmerman

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.
Jason Mraz

Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s.
Kim Wilde

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
Philip Zimbardo

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.
Gary Sinise

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.
Joe Baca

Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country.
Arto Lindsay

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.
Richard Gere

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
Barack Obama

Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
LaToya London

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
Igor Stravinsky

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Gary Ryan Blair

During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.
Parker Stevenson


Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.
Christine Gregoire

From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
Olivia Wilde

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.
Joely Fisher

I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos.
Kenneth Branagh

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.
Debra Winger

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.
Craig Benson

I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do.
Diana Ross

I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
Barry Mann

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.
Dianne Wiest

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.
John Hewson

I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.
Paul Putner

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.
Val Kilmer

I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.
Emma Stone

I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.
Mark Messier

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.
Sylvester Stallone

I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
Camille Claudel

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
Frances McDormand

I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!
Sheryl Crow

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.
Jennifer Lopez

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
Brad Holland

 

 

 
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