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

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

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.

Top managers love people and they want to be loved – it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss.

Follow your passion; Do not get married to it, though.

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn’t submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work.

I want to beat up Michael Fassbender in a movie. I was with him at the beginning of his career when he did an episode of ‘Murphy’s Law.’ He’s a proper superstar and enormously talented,...

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it’s useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how...

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

I started my career without fans.

There’s that talent thing where I can score goals, and there’s also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I’ve seen a lot of players do it for...

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

A huge number of jobs that are filled are never advertised to the public, or if they are, they’re filled by people who have a connection to the employer.

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts…

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.

For most of my career I’ve been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.

Pitting your dream against someone else’s is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.

But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don’t like very much.

I guess you could say the beginning of my career as an actress was when I started performing in music videos.

I wouldn’t say ‘Avatar’ changed my life, but it definitely changed my career.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the ’50s and ’60s, they had the theater, and television was...

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

I’ve always had a middling kind of a career, not great highs and great lows.

It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man–almost rarer–who is great enough to see greatness and say so.

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

My life and career is my own adventure.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

On a shirt, every button has its own button-hole. Fix a button elsewhere and your dressing goes crazy and nasty! On earth, everyone has his/her dreams. You have your own. Fix yourself there and your...

I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.

It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing ‘Charlie’s Angels’ because it did so much for my career.

I‘m very aware that my personal life, my marriage, is the source of speculation and interest in the department and with the public. I can live with that. I’m also aware that my husband’s businesses,...

Some people make enough, some people don’t, and it has nothing to do with their paycheck.

I’ve been compared to Jude Law my whole career.

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you’ll do to a great extent means choosing who you’ll be.

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

For my whole career, I’ve been a singer-slash-songwriter, even though I’m very thankfully known for my voice. Songwriting has always been a joy in my life, and to be recognized for it is extremely validating.

When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.

Nein, die Schule hat keinen bestimmenden Einfluss auf meine Entwicklung gehabt. Die Schule hat von meinen besonderen Anlagen wohl instinktiv etwas gespürt, sie aber als obstinate Untauglichkeit gewertet und verworfen. Ein Lehrer drohte, zufällig nicht...

I’m very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I’m just living according to the standards of the world.

Slayer fans are unforgiving. Early on in the career, if something changes, it’s accepted. But 30 years down the road, in my opinion, they would rather see us do a three-piece than even try to...

I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from...