Career Quotes

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. (Marilyn Monroe)
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. View quote
Michael Jordan
Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career. View quote
Lawrence Klein
People talk about 'my career,' but 'career' is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt very privileged to be paid for what I love doing. View quote
Barbara Stanwyck
Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
You can't model for the rest of your life, so it is important to diversify your career. View quote
Tyra Banks
I've been killing characters my entire career, maybe I'm just a bloody minded bastard, I don't know, [but] when my characters are in danger, I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps. View quote
George R. R. Martin
I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me! View quote
Sally Field
When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move. View quote
Bryan Ferry
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. (Gloria Steinem)
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard. View quote
Mary McCarthy
A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to. View quote
Rahul Dravid
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. View quote
Abdul Kalam
Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any. View quote
Desi Arnaz
I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight. View quote
Ed Harris
The only way to sustain a career is to be as prolific as you can be, and open to opportunities. View quote
Christine Vachon
It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do. View quote
Cory Doctorow
I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work in some remote corner of Russia after the war. I could not suppose that my country would change, and I would. View quote
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?' View quote
Gertrude Stein
Some women chasing men, and some - for dreams. If you are at a fork, remember, your career will not wake up one morning to say that more does not love you. (Lady Gaga)
Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator? View quote
Charles de Gaulle
Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't. View quote
Beverly Sills
All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly. View quote
Mario Lemieux