I wouldn’t mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I’ve learned in my career and applying that to another person’s.

So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists – when you’re an author, you can be any of these things, and you don’t need a...

It has always been simple, but making it hard was always your way of avoiding pain. If you want to change your life, you have to change what you are doing. It wasn’t his fault,...

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of...

The standard of a true leader is that he sets also his own rules rather than merely and blindly obeying the set of standard rules, even if it means being treated as an idiot or...

I had a career at home, and I just knew that it’d be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.

Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time.

Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating.

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

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I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, ‘Chris, you have a strange career.’

There are two types of people in life when it comes to their careers: people who visualize, and people who imitate. The people who visualize paint their own vision of what their mark is in...

Friends are really important, especially when you’ve had the successes that I’ve had. I’ve gone really far in my career, so they’re the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

I’m not a career woman.

Getting to this point hasn’t always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that...

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big – that’s the only way to get it… I just couldn’t stand being anonymous.

I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I’ve given everything that I’ve got.

If you don’t have the right support form the right people you are always going to be the best choice and not the preferred choice.

If you look at my career, I kind of got progressively better and better and better. I came closer to the top.

I couldn’t find my cup of tea.So probably, I’ve been simply taking a sip from everyone else’s cup. May be it shouldn’t matter as long as there is tea to drink. Or should it?

Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder...

Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people’s confidences out.

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn’t plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is...

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career...

I’m used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

Don’t go through life with a closed mind. Allow innovations and creativity to flow. We should always challenge ourselves to excel in more ways than one. Be open to ideas or suggestions on how to...

I’d never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I’d break my leg and it would affect my career.

Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting...

I like the fact that I’m involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

The simplest way to enjoy lasting success in life is to strike a balance between your career and family. If one must suffer, never it be your family.

I didn’t have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.

If you don’t see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don’t know how you’re going to feel about it.

I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.

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If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.

In terms of negotiating a career – I’ve always grown up being an insider and an outsider to different worlds, across different classes and cultures, so I have always naturally liked making films or music...

‘West Side Story’ was one of the high points of my career. Yet, when I first saw it, I was really disappointed in how I came off.

I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their...

Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be… That’s how I’m going to measure my career as a success or...

Finding your passion is the key to your success. – Tracy Kauffman

Yet for quixotic reasons–namely, that I enjoyed writing obits–I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively about the city’s dead. For even less money. It was a...

The job wouldn’t be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do...

Your career and your passion don’t always match up.