If your story is not inspiring you, it’s time to change it.

I’d known since girlhood that I wanted to be a book editor. By high school, I’d pore over the acknowledgments section of novels I loved, daydreaming that someday a brilliant talent might see me as...

I don’t remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come...

Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.

No offense but a seller will say whatever it takes to sell a product but if you sum it up, it comes down to hard work.

Any time you get named in a list like that, it’s very humbling. You see the careers those guys have had, and the career Pujols is going to have, it’s nice to be a part...

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.

My goal in going into the entertainment world is not solely on the aspect of fame and fortune. But, solely on the aspect that I love creating new things as both hobby and professionally; because...

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

Careers increasingly come with a reboot button, and companies that realize this early possess a competitive talent advantage

somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.

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

The idea is to keep the players playing harder for longer, … So many careers have ended because of knee and leg injuries, we want to keep that from happening.

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk – it...

You know, no one steered people’s careers in those days, I don’t think, like they do today.

Players who are going to move on in their hockey careers show up in the big games. To be a great player you have to be a great player in the playoffs.

I found myself feeling bad for those guys, guys who have had such great careers, then they go and lose on Senior Day.

The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life competing with others, trying to make right the wrongs done to you, or...

Where there is less pain, there is also less pay.

It could end some careers.

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that...

It’s a start for a lot of guys who had good college careers, but didn’t have what the scouts were looking for. It’s also exciting to be seeing a group of young men (rookies) at...

Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put

You can’t be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.

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

Keep up with what’s causing chaos in your own field.

If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made.

Sometimes people’s careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don’t.

All of these dancers are dancers who are on the verge of their careers, so to speak. They’re here to hone their artistry and make the transition from the classroom to the stage.

Justin and I were in the locker room today reminiscing about being freshmen. We didn’t want our careers to end. We just had to step it up.

So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing....

Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty.

It really is something … that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn’t it be possible for us just to banish these men from our lives, and escape their carping...

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

We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become “teachers and learners” at the end of it all! By the “learning career”, we know what...

You’ve still got to work toward your goal. Educate yourself. Make plans. Network with peers and colleagues. Join groups related to your goal or aspiration. You’ve got to put yourself into a position to succeed...

I believe there no surer path to leaping dramatically forward in your career than to earn a Ph.D. in the humanities. Because the thought leaders in our industry are not the ones who plodded dully,...

This was maybe the biggest win of their careers in some ways.

Make no mistake: Your salary is held to the same standards your grades were held to in the educational system, where you couldn’t surpass a 100 no matter how hard you worked or how intelligent...

A lot of people credit him with being terribly influential in their careers,

Careers are not made in a family business, they are born – by patricide. Then they die from neglect, and avoid the tragedy of being put out of business.

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won’t make that mistake again.

Through career fumbles and life changes, she supported me. Through shattered dreams and hopes almost-realized, she supported me too.

It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a by-product, that you emerge as a desired commodity for industry.

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

I think it ends the season right. Our careers here at Toledo as seniors, it is icing on the cake. This is our championship and it feels great.

The Orange prize has been pivotal in the careers of many women writers – it’s given them that extra push, and that extra dollop of confidence.

Careers are developed one conversation at a time – over time.

Understanding and using technology are critical components of all students’ academic careers and, most certainly, barometers of their future employment prospects. Given the president’s emphasis in the State of the Union on the importance of...

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair...