I dropped my gardening tools, threw my bicycle over a hedge and went in search of fortunes laid beneath the hangman’s noose.

If your story is not inspiring you, it’s time to change it.

Get yourself into something that you don’t have passion for and feel like an idiot always.

You can escape competition through authenticity, when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you. That would have been useless advice pre-internet. Post-internet, you can turn that into a career.

It’s crazy how you hear the story of The Tortoise and the Hare while growing up, and assume it’s just a nice thing to tell kids—and then you start your career and watch it actually...

A decision is only as strong as the belief standing behind it

First LEARN…thenremove the ‘L

Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college. I was not outspoken when I was younger and I hated being the...

Three rules for a career: 1. Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2. Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3. Work only with people you enjoy.

Those that care for their career, more than their relationship, can find themselves alone.

After a few months of talking with people and observing them, I realized that the traits of the successful fitness enthusiasts had everything in common with those of the high achievers I had spent years...

I think that what ‘Oz’ did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But people know its place in television and just in great dramas. It’s the foundation of my career. Most producers,...

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work...

I’ve made a commitment to concentrate on my career as an entertainer.

In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.

Cheney’s memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush’s administration, but about his entire life and political career.

With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.

I know it wouldn’t seem like I’ve had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, ‘That’s not good...

I’d rather have a career that utilizes my creativity, but torturing people all day long is not a bad gig. At least not for me.

Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.

I’m taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

One thing they do not teach you in college is what you will actually be doing in a career of your choosing.

I’m really fortunate because, in my career, I haven’t had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I’m not.

I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But...

Everybody needs a career manager.”- Lady Macbeth

From their ’61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their wake the songbook and sound for their career. It’s the musical trough from...

Reading is learning: Secure Future and earnings

‘Doctor Who’ is one of those things that stays with you throughout your career, and I’m very happy with that.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

I’ve been playing the Wolfenstein games since I was a kid, and feel that their outlandish sensibility has deeply influenced my own writing and directing throughout my career.

Lawan yang pandai lebih baik daripada teman yang bodoh.

Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we...

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual...

When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.

The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies – you name it – have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog...

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

Obviously, I’m at the beginning of my career, contrary to what anyone else thinks. I’m 19 years old. In any other country, everywhere else, you’re a prospect. And that’s what I am right now in...

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

It’s not that I want to work for Williams-Sonoma, per se, it’s just that you guys have the money and I don’t.

I’ve been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.

Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.

As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they’re supposed to happen and the way they’re supposed to happen.

Our most challenging and painful experiences become our credentials for helping people.

Your children are grown and your career has slowed down – all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you’re left with expansive time and space. You have to reimagine who...

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the ‘Lord of the Rings’ films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the...

Pour ce qu’il avait pu en observer l’existence des hommes s’organisait autour du travail, qui occupait la plus grande partie de la vie, et s’accomplissait dans des organisations de dimension variable. A l’issue des années...

When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR....

Fortunately, our colleges and universities are fully cognizant of the problems I have been delineating and take concerted action to address them. Curricula are designed to give coherence to the educational experience and to challenge...

Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed…. Leaders should strive for authenticity...