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

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.

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...

Never agree to a job interview in which the interviewer has seen you naked.

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.

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.