Career Quotes - page 19

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them. (Frank Langella)
Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience. View quote
Frank Shorter
You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble. View quote
George Thorogood
I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears. View quote
Geri Halliwell
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city. View quote
Goldwin Smith
My favorite actor that I look up to is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. His career is something I look up to, I just want to be that guy. He's always part of projects that have a lot of soul and that's what I want to do as an actor. View quote
Grant Gustin
My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculating somewhere between four and five million golf balls I had hit to do that on my body. View quote
Greg Norman
I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people. View quote
Garret Dillahunt
Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me. View quote
Gemma Ward
About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient. View quote
Gene Tierney
Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese. (Gene Tierney)
You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model. View quote
Haile Gebrselassie
The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear. View quote
Herb Elliott
Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer. View quote
Herb Ritts
Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career. View quote
Howard Keel
There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want. View quote
Hugh Dancy
I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions. View quote
Haley Barbour
I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more. View quote
Harold Hamm
The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and even when I was just starting out in my career, had the strength and self-assurance to ask tough questions and push for answers. View quote
Heather Bresch
I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice. View quote
Heather Bresch
I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me. (Heikki Kovalainen)
One of the greatest threats to your husband's position of priority would be if you were to earnestly pursue a career... If you finally reach a pinnacle of success, you would overshadow him and make him feel unimportant. View quote
Helen Andelin
I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25. View quote
Ian Hart
Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be. View quote
Imelda Staunton
My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career. View quote
Ivan Reitman