Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Your career wont take care of you. It won’t call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you...

I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don’t know how long my career would’ve been.

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to...

Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What...

Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious.

For growth to happen it is necessary to get your BUT out of the way.

There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art – I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been...

Our careers aren’t paths so much as landscapes that are navigated.

Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.

So I think that in the beginning of your career you’re just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was ‘Rabbit Hole’ and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize...

Listen, I’m 41 years old. I’ve got two kids. I’ve got a career. The last thing I need to be doing is having a beef with A Tribe Called Quest. It’s silly and it was...

I mean, my music career and my acting career – if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it’s going to be a bit of a...

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, ‘Lucky Jim.’

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?

I’ve made a career out of playing the id: the guy that says whatever pops into his head.

Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want.

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

I suppose, in a way, one could say I may be less interested in my career than the audience is. Not to mean that I’m disinterested in my career, but I don’t see it in...

I slide to my knees and say, “Please let this be over.” Then, I’m not ready for it to be over.

At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

And uh, forget the money. Because, if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life wasting your time. You will be doing things you don’t like doing...

To be stuck with that Kardashian label, that was so hurtful to me and to my career. I probably realized that too late – not that it would’ve affected my decisions in terms of who...

It’s easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well.

I’m not sought after. I never get enough work. It’s the history of my career. There just isn’t anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

There are a lot of actors that I really love to watch, actors who I have fun watching – I think Johnny Depp is phenomenal. But I wouldn’t want that career as much as I’d...

Work is the passionate energy you put into the art that defines you

Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects… the list is endless.

In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.

The word career is a divisive word. It’s a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my...

Choose to live life.Choose your own career paths.Choose your own destiny.

I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you’re wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.

Success is not defined by status, money, education, career or another person but rather by the level of peace that I have within myself.

A military career offers the stability many South Korean women crave.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn’t have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That’s the tragedy of this.

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect – when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that’s not been the major passion, but it’s been the passion of a number...

It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.

Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it’s not a good career choice for anybody. I don’t recommend it.

It’s not only who you know but who knows you.

Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be *more* successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don’t think I’ll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I’ll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn...

You perception of a person, place, or thing may not be accurate. Just because it looks good does not mean it is good and vice versa. Always be aware of your surroundings. Pay attention to...

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don’t want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

I’ve had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

My parents have always said, ‘You’ll be so unhappy if you’re no more than your career, that it’s important to get out there and do things other than just your career.’

I’ve been sober now for a couple of years and I’m taking my sobriety very seriously – one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood’s most...