Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.

I had a good career. I’ve been very fortunate.

Don’t do it! Don’t you dare think about giving up! EVERYTHING has a process. Work with the process, not against it. Move forward with purpose and never stop believing. You can do this! You know...

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don’t, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or...

Done is better than perfect.

What’s your avocado?

I don’t really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn’t about me. It was about everything I could do for another. When that sinks in…well you try a little harder. You dream a little...

Even if some days I feel like I’m ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I’ve ever been. My family gives me more joy than I thought possible, and my career fulfills me...

Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

Sometimes you get caught up in what’s going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That...

You’ll earn more money doing something you love, rather than just doing something because it pays you a high salary.

Heaven knows where I’ll end up – it’s a safe bet I’ll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it...

You’re always looking to have a unique experience as an actor, and definitely, being punched by a puppet ranks as a singular experience in my career.

No new venture occurs without mistakes. Dare to learn and grow through your mistakes–this is how mastery occurs!

In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer...

He is loyal to his own career but only incidentally to anything or anyone else.

When my father was 17, he went to Montreal and found these submarine sandwich shops that were really successful, and weren’t in Toronto [his home town]. So he went to my grandparents and said: “Look,...

That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life—this our mother has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following.

It seemed like whenever I got a bona fide offer from Ferrari, I couldn’t do it. And vice versa – when I was ready, their seats were taken. We always had a relationship, but what’s...

I have to say, I haven’t really worked with that many people in my career that I haven’t liked, which I think is really rare.

To get the Nickelodeon award? That’s like ‘it.’ It’s one of the best. It’s definitely where you want to be in your career.

I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else from Bollywood would have done that.

For most of my career, I’ve played roles that were written for other actresses.

Do what you love but do what it takes to do what you love.

I’m not a celebrity, I’ve kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career.

I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.

Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn’t get more consistent than this year.

Sometimes you just need some reassurance about your Choice before you take any decision.

I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for...

Everybody’s career has ups and downs. I like to take chances; I don’t like to stand still. And I don’t give a damn what the market is interested in; I want to try things.

What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.

Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead.

If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.

I’ve always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

The grand scheme of a life, maybe (just maybe), is not about knowing or not knowing, choosing or not choosing. Perhaps what is truly known can’t be described or articulated by creativity or logic, science...

If people knew what made hits they’d make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one’s career isn’t something I can even pretend to have.

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I’ll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in...

Organizing one’s life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration.

You’ll never know the the outcome unless you just go out there and just do it.

In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They’re every four years and it’s such a small group.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

Anything we can do to encourage our young people to celebrate the arts and believe in a career in the arts is wonderful for Canada and for Canadian youth.

‘Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.

I started my career as an actor, but I’ve been a director for 15 years now.

My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don’t try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

Your manager wants to believe that you enjoy your job, or at least you won’t spit in her coffee when she looks away. At the office, attitude counts for a lot.

There’s an old hymn called ‘How Can I Keep from Singing?’ That’s what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It’s intrinsic to who I am. So it was a natural choice for...