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Career Quotes

"You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things."

Marilyn Horne, American Musician

"My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important."

Dennis Eckersley, American Athlete

"It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes."

Jim Carrey, Canadian Comedian

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."

Steve Jobs, American Businessman

Career, Work, Satisfaction, Passion

"The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course."

Tara Lipinski, American Athlete

"My name is more important than myself."

Pierre Cardin, French Designer

"I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey."

Mark Messier, Canadian Athlete

Career, Careers, Now, Old, Play

"Eric Schmid explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job-fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters, He told me, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket sip, you don't ask what seat. You just get on."

Sheryl Sandberg, American Author

Career, Career Growth, Opportunity, Success

"If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little."

James Stewart, American Actor

"I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador."

Felix de Weldon, American Sculptor

Career, Englfirst, London

"It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City."

Hermann Maier, Austrian Athlete

"So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman."

Harvey Keitel, American Actor

"If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that."

Joseph Wambaugh, American Writer

Career, Right, Years

"If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't."

Sidney Poitier, American Actor

Career, Logic, Reason

"I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do."

Mother Jones, American Activist

Career, Labor, Wrongs

"But while compliant, raise-your-hand-and-speak-when-called-on behaviors might be rewarded in school, they are less valued in the workplace."

Sheryl Sandberg, American Author

Career, Workplace, Behavior, Success

"To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience."

Peter Jackson, New Zealander Director

Career, Doubt, Newzealander

"I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg."

Jack Klugman, American Actor

Career, Day, Race

"I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be."

Kristin Davis, American Actress

"I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure."

Matt Damon, American Actor

Career, Focus, Interest, Now

"I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same."

Wilt Chamberlain, American Athlete

"It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen."

Wanda Jackson, American Musician

"I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars."

Honus Wagner, American Athlete

"I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship."

Major Taylor, American Athlete

Career, Fame, Living, Play

"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."

George Thorogood, American Musician

Career, Luck, Trouble

"I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen."

Donald Sutherland, Canadian Actor

Career, Chance, Play

"You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me."

Larry Dixon, American Politician

"I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since."

Tom Glazer, American Musician

"There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out."

Lawrence Taylor, American Athlete

Career, Day, Games, Zone

"They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen."

Valentina Tereshkova, Russian Astronaut

Career, Arguments, Being, Flying, Space

"Find a job from which you do not need a vacation."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Career, Job, Happiness, Work

"Losing your job shows you the worth of your time rather the worth of money."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Career, Job, Value, Time, Perspective

"I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre."

Katie Holmes, American Actress

Career, Theatre, Want

"The game has basically not changed since I ended my career."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

"On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have."

Rick Wagoner, American Businessman

Career, Meeting, Washington

"I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that."

Dianne Wiest, American Actress

Career, Careers, Kids

"After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career."

Ted Lindsay, Canadian Athlete

Career, Chicago, Years

"I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies."

Janine Turner, American Actress

Career, Singing

"I have a kind of objective luxury about my career."

Martin Short, American Actor

"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."

Mario Lemieux, Canadian Athlete

"I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself."

Bill Forsyth, Scottish Director

Career, Theatre, Youth

"I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase."

Paul Putner, English Comedian

Career, Careers, Jobs, School

"Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there."

David Ginola, French Athlete

"I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over."

Jack Wild, English Actor

Career, Now, Talking

"I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career."

Kate Smith, American Musician

"Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career."

Sally Kellerman, American Actress

"You want the best for your kid, but everybody's career is completely different in this industry."

Joely Fisher, American Actress

"We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am."

Thomas Keller, American Celebrity

Career, Careers

"A career in the theatre demands so much commitment."

Jim Dale, British Musician

Career, Commitment, Theatre

"I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure."

David Friedman, American Actor

Career, Pressure

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