Careers Quotes - Page 33

• I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Thinking, Peers

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.20, Anchor

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• And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

  Gayle Forman

  Night, Firsts, Coincidence

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.113, Penguin

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• I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Garden

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• The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform. It is true, that no diligence can ascertain success; death may intercept the swiftest career; but he who is cut off in the execution of an honest undertaking has at least the honour of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle, though he missed the victory.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fall, Procrastination, Cutting

  Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...”, p.101

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• I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

  Candace Bushnell

  Jobs, Quitting

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• The hallway led me to the stairway of a million steps. My leg screamed in protest. I sighed and started climbing. I just had to keep from limping. Limping showed weakness, and I didn’t need any enterprising, career-motivated shapeshifters trying to challenge me for dominance right about now. I had once mentioned my desire for an elevator, and His Majesty asked me if I would like a flock of doves to carry me up to my quarters so my feet wouldn’t have to touch the ground. We were sparring at the time and I kicked him in the kidney in retaliation.

  Ilona Andrews

  Climbing, Feet, Challenges

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• I don’t know what I’m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I’ll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I’ll think about a career path.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Thinking, Years, Worry

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.53, Macmillan

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• See you just don’t understand women the way I do J.D. They want it all: a career apple martinis financial independence great shoes but at the same time—and this they’ll never admit—they are drawn to patriarchal men who are dominant and controlling. That’s the essence of the Darcy complex. He may be an asshole but he’s an asshole that gets the girl in the end.

  Julie James

  Girl, Men, Apples

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.151, Penguin

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• I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.

  Anita Loos

  Thinking, Destiny, Would Be

  Anita Loos (1977). “Cast of Thousands”, Smithmark Pub

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• No scratch the word "career". Careers are people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. This is merely a job. I can take or leave this place. I start to imagine quitting and following my yet-to-be-determined passion.

  Emily Giffin

  Jobs, Passion, People

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.129, Macmillan

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• When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a great career and feel that he has been called to no common destiny. But this is a delusion which experience quickly corrects.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Depressing, Destiny, Men

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• I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

  Al Jarreau

  Second Chance, Half, Chance

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• In the beginning I remember when I would spend three hours a day on MySpace just trying to comment everyone back, and now, I spend a half hour a night on MySpace just putting up new stuff and answering people back and monitoring all the fan sites, and saying hi and thank you. I'm still way on top of it. I haven't grown out of it because it'll always be something that helped launch my career, and I'm going to keep maintaining it.

  Taylor Swift

  Night, People, Trying

  "Taylor Swift" by Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. May 2, 2008.

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• I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.

  Bret McKenzie

  Jobs, Coffee, Men

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• My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

  Judy Garland

  Success, Congratulations, Down And

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• And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

  Victoria Gomez Cima

  Congratulations, Examination, Found

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• The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.”

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Success, Perseverance, Determination

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• Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

  Stendhal

  Painful, Divine, Vulgar

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• Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.

  George C. Marshall

  Loyalty, Determination, Persistence

  Military Review, October 1948.

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• And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.

  Aaron Allston

  Home, Mind, Ruins

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• There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with. You never know who’s going to come into your life - and for me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

  Taylor Swift

  Falling In Love, Love You, Thinking

  "InStyle’s June Cover Girl Is... Taylor Swift!". Interview with Sharon Clott Kanter, www.instyle.com. May 17, 2011.

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• We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

  Mitch Albom

  Missing, Want, Littles

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• I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department, the prof would have looked at my short stories, congratulated me on my talent, and then showed me how Joyce or Hemingway handled the same elements of the short story. The prof would have placed me in competition with the greatest writers of all time, and that would have ended my writing career.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Thinking, Competition

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• I swear that woman had a previous career as a death-hunter selling tragic ballads down around the Seven Dials," said Will. "And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we've eaten.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wish, Hunters, Seven

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one.

  Bill Gates

  Education, Dream, Country

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