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.

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

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...

First LEARN…thenremove the ‘L

Being in charge of your work life doesn’t mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving, continuing on your own path, even when you feel shaky and uncertain.

I’m a songwriter and I’d love to make that a part of my career.

There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan’s laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as...

Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don’t. That’s fine.

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress… period.

I always get bored with my hair. That’s why I would always change it throughout my career.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don’t see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after ‘The Birdcage.’ I think people just didn’t know what to do with me.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night

Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure.

What else can I do? Once you’ve gone this far you aren’t fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You’re overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be...

I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of aerial photography in forestry in the 1950s, and we...

I’m not in any rush to get anywhere. There’s a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it’s over. But everyone wants longevity, don’t they? It’s a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job...

The purpose of college, to put this all another way, is to turn adolescents into adults. You needn’t go to school for that, but if you’re going to be there anyway, then that’s the most...

Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls...

I think what’s most interesting about me is the work that I do.

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don’t happen in the studio.

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late ’60’s.

It’s been a wonderful career, I couldn’t ask for anything more.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist’s career.

It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.

what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appointment’) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?

I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don’t have much of a plan, really.

I’m not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn’t worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.

Make sure your LinkedIn profile has a targeted headline. Not only should the headline clearly state your career focus, it’s also the most important place to add a keyword or two, because this influences how...

Cat, I’ll let you in on a little secret. We don’t all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn’t make the work part of it any easier…It just makes...

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

There are a lot of actors who don’t like reality stars ’cause they feel these people aren’t accomplished. They haven’t done this or that, but they are savvy. They have found a way to make...

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don’t even know where you...

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested...

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type...

I realize that although I’d like to make films as a career after I’m done playing, I really love basketball; I really love my career, an opportunity to compete every day and to push myself...

You can’t be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: ‘Holy Christ, whaddya know – I’m still around!’ It’s absolutely amazing that I survived all...

Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a ‘means of livelihood’ while he waits to discover his ‘true vocation’. The world...

I don’t see myself as a full-time broadcaster. I’ve done some of it, and I enjoy it, but I don’t think I should try to make a career out of it.

Love is a career with its own stages, rewards, and failures . . . a vocation as concrete as a calling in the Church, worth giving a lifetime to.

Perfecting is a journey…There is no destination called perfection.