Career Quotes - page 8

[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [Dichter], but never a perfected, a truly great man. (Karl Marx)
I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career. View quote
Brion Gysin
Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it. View quote
Subhash Kak
The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also offered important stimulation for thought about physics. Following a practical profession is a blessing for people of my type. Because the academic career puts a young person in a sort of compulsory situation to produce scientific papers in impressive quantity, a temptation to superficiality arises that only strong characters are able to resist. View quote
Albert Einstein
It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it. View quote
Barbara Stanwyck
During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective,... View quote
Preston Manning
Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called the awkward age-too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house. View quote
Anne McCaffrey
For years before my Navy enlistment, I had studied the Soviet Union and the KGB's history of political intrigue in preparation for a career in intelligence. View quote
Malcolm Nance
The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career. (Markus Zusak)
My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments. View quote
Matt Cameron
One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write. View quote
Matthew Reilly
The disassociation between inner belief and outer behaviour allowed many people to enjoy a sense of retaining their inner decency while at the same time not risking any loss of livelihood, any compromise over career ambitions, let alone any potentially more sanctions; hence never revealing any signs of disagreement or openly showing anything less than apparently full commitment to the regime and its policies. View quote
Mary Fulbrook
I didn't completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career. View quote
Mindy Kaling
If you are unable to change many aspects of your work, you must alter your mindset – learning to stop thinking about your work as boring or dull; viewing the glass as half full rather than half empty; finding the positives in your daily work and career. View quote
Nigel Cumberland
I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up. View quote
Nicholas Stern
I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career. View quote
Novak Djokovic
I think if you do not enjoy your time, your life, if you do not live intensely and do not spend time with your family, in one way or another it will be reflected in your career. View quote
Novak Djokovic
I understand that the results I've had in my career, or I'm having now, they are very good. And that gives me confidence, of course, but I do not feel invincible. View quote
Novak Djokovic
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. (Orison Swett Marden)
Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is. View quote
Andy Cohen
Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career? View quote
Placido Domingo
Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career. View quote
Placido Domingo