Top 1167 Careers Quotes & Sayings

Anybody can have a life. Careers are hard to come by.

I think there is really something we need to examine about the notion of careers, and are women encouraged and given the same opportunities to have vital healthy careers in which they are challenged by certain things, they try new things, they struggle, maybe they stumble, maybe they fail, and then there's more room to succeed as well.

Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware.

It's the same when you listen to any kind of successful athlete. My older brother has a useful name for them - he calls them lottery ticket careers. I are engaged in what he calls these lottery ticket careers. On the one hand it's very, very unlikely that you're ever going to hit it. On the other hand if you do hit it, you really hit it. You have to be engaged with it, though, maybe you're entire life. And if you never actually do hit it? You kind of jovially lie yourself along the way and recognize that it may produce things outside the hitting it kinds of goods, I suppose.

My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.

From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

I've had several different careers.

A man has to define himself as a breadwinner, as opposed to thinking that well, women used to be caregivers who also wanted to have careers; men have always had careers, so why shouldn't they also want much more family time?

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

My husband and I each had careers and two babies at home. They just demand everything from you. All the domestic duties fell to me and this resentment builds, as I think happens to a lot of young parents who have competing careers.

I think players have ups and downs in their careers.

Careers will come and go. Talent is always there.

We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.

I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.

Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.

I feel like there are some careers that do have a higher meaning.

Whatever the reason, we are not doing a good enough job getting to women early enough in their careers, supporting them, and enabling them to pursue careers in directing.

Actors' careers are random with a capital "R."

Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes.

The TECH Careers Act will open the door for more Americans to have successful middle-class careers and help small businesses in Connecticut and across the country access a qualified pool of talented workers.

In the entertainment industry, careers don't last very long - and online, careers last an even shorter amount of time.

There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.

Sometimes it's okay for careers to find you.

I think, certainly, in history, if you look back, a lot of people would go through their careers, build a business, or be a doctor, lawyer, and then they would go and do public service later on in their careers.

I don't think of careers from a functional perspective or from a subject matter perspective. I think of careers as, how do you like spending the time in your day? What makes you happiest? What are you most passionate about?

I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers.

There is a reason that both have had the longevity in their careers that they have had. They have each done very different things throughout their careers and lived really interesting lives. There is a reason why they are up there still. After all, there is only one Barbra Streisand and one Liza Minnelli.

The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We're very childlike in many ways.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I was growing up, my mother and her generation basically felt that you should only work as a way of passing time until you got married and had at least two children. And the only careers that were open for women at the time was teacher or nurse - which are fantastic careers, I mean fantastic and I actually am a former math teacher.

There's really no way to break that chain - other than winning the lottery. There's no realistic way to end generational poverty other than to actually educate people so that they can get the jobs, so that people can be self-sufficient. And to be self-sufficient around careers - not just jobs, but careers.

Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.

We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.

I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.

Everybody works their whole careers for a WrestleMania moment.

It's always marketeers building their own careers.

My two careers have been very service-oriented.

It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers.

'Wrestlemania' is the time of the year where careers are made or broken.

The American people recognize that their careers or their kids' careers are going to have to be more dynamic. That they might not be working at a single plant for 30 years. That they might have to change careers. They might have to get more education. They might have to retool or retrain. And I think the American people are game for that.

There appears to be a disturbing trend in this nation to try to force single moms to choose between their children and their careers. If they take their careers seriously, they are labeled as bad mothers. If they spend time with their children, they are labeled as people who can't be serious about careers outside the home. This is a sexist double standard. No such guilt trip is imposed on men, who are generally not forced to choose between their children and their jobs.

I think we do need better training programs, we do need a way to get people from careers that are dead-end into new careers.

All political careers are a rollercoaster.

Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.

I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

People shouldn't choose their careers on whether it's cool or not. They should choose their careers on, 'Are they good at it, do they love it, is it going to give them a good life?'

I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.

This is a great time in our lives and careers.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

I guess part of my ambivalence about pursuing music as well as acting is that acting is already one of the most difficult careers to create for yourself, I must be insane to embark on creating two careers in two of the most difficult fields. But I have really different ambitions with music; I just want to stay in love with music. I want it to continue to be a means of expression for me that feels like it's mine, and something that feels community-based.

Comics don't usually have very long careers, and I'm 22 years into this.

We have to do everything we can to help students and adult learners to prepare for the careers of today as well as the careers of tomorrow.

We knew the European players that went to the NBA and had great careers, and we knew the ones that went and had terrible careers or finished early. We were prepared for a lot of criticism.

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.