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.

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

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

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

It’s something that I think I’m going to have to fight against for most of my career, for people to take me seriously as an actor as opposed to a good-looking guy. It’s not what...

If I don’t keep this job, then my only future career-options are working in Argos, or being a prostitute,’ I say, wildly.’Maybe you could work in Argos as a prostitute,’ my mother says, merrily. She...

You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you’re gonna take and which waves you’re not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be...

I’ve always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone’s ‘girlfriend’ was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you ‘famous’ isn’t always what...

Where there is less pain, there is also less pay.

If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of...

In my illustrious career as a university student, I turned in over 100 papers so that one day, in the end, I got 1 paper in return.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn’t throw it past me, none of them.

A world full of people who want to know what you will be, what is your skill and what is your purpose. In the north, if a man had come and said “What will you...

She don’t only believe in Shoes & cars…. She do believe in Super Star. That’s the kind of girl you need bro, the girl that will believe in you & support your career.

Only Getting the A and Z with out the B through Y, leaves you SOL.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards, they try to have more things or more money in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it...

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut’s career to do a spacewalk.

As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn’t think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa – which obviously was a...

Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me out, keeps me from ruining my career and relationships, keeps...

You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.

Don’t expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: she’s not the best singer in the world, but she’s got where she has through hard work.

Joy in your Job is possible to the extent you’re willing to choose it.

Any time you’re a type, your career’s over.

In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we’re supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every child deserves, the perfect wife, meet the demands of elderly...

I’ve always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that’s the way things are.

No matter how against your conditions are, never divert yourself from your life goals.

The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise. If I have something that’s really bothering me,...

It’s not easy balancing a career, a family and a healthy outlook on life, which is why I don’t.

I’m naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I’m lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.

Politically, Obama’s amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.

‘Napoleon Dynamite’ blew up my career.

As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering....

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

To be environmentally friendly, I’d ride my stationary bike to work. I hope my career works out, because it feels like I’m just spinning my wheels.

In a career, when you hit 40 and you’ve done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to...

Here’s a glorious thought: You don’t have to settle. Ever. In life, in love, in your career…ANYWHERE!

Because wouldn’t it be terrible if you slipped and hurt yourself?

Your career success in the workplace of today–independent of technical expertise–depends on the quality of your people skills. (9)

I can’t point to anything that has been more responsible for my career than my training.

I think fame comes from actually doing something big with your career.

In my Olympic history I don’t think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That’s what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave...

You definitely have to be focused at certain times in your life and in your career, but at the end of the day, there’s only so much you can do. Then you just have to...

My career means, if you’re a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there’s one Indian in your rearview mirror.

Being part of a fraternity has given me the foundation for everything I do in my career from the loyalty to the determination; it laid the foundation for everything I’ve been able to enjoy. I’m...