Careers Quotes - Page 35

• Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.

  Nora Roberts

  Running, Retirement, Memories

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• You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house." He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.

  Kristin Hannah

  Lying, Thinking, House

  Kristin Hannah (2009). “The Things We Do for Love: A Novel”, p.382, Ballantine Books

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• I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.

  Suzanne Collins

  Looks, Branches, I Smile

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• I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It’s like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that!

  Joss Whedon

  Girl, Dark, Ideas

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• I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done.

  Nicholas Lea

  Looks, Done, Proud

  Biography\Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial words—and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant "I acknowledge that I've heard what you said; please continue.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Years, Law

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.249, Penguin

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• In a few hours, I’m going to be banished to the surface, my belongings raffled off as novelty items and my living space given to someone else—my reputation destroyed. I’d rather have your head than your soul at this point in my illustrious career.” - Al

  Kim Harrison

  Space, Soul, Als

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• My life has always been geared towards my career. If my life is complete in other ways then I don't mind being a 65-year-old spinster. But I don't discount love when I'm talking about not getting married. I could... it's just something I haven't wanted to do yet.

  Kylie Minogue

  Talking, Years, Mind

  "Talking dirty: quotes of the week". www.irishexaminer.com. February 20, 2002.

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• It is a fatal mistake to assume that God’s goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world defines it. The abundant life has nothing to do with material abundance, and faithfulness to God does not guarantee success in a career or even ministry. Never focus on temporary crowns.

  Rick Warren

  Mistake, Goal, Focus

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Feb 04, 2016

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• A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

  Stephen Fry

  Heaven, Training, Different

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.72, The Overlook Press

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• If the careers want me, let them find me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Want, Find Me, Ifs

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.129, Scholastic UK

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• I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm, working on the railroad. I think this eclectic career helped me a lot in life.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Life Lesson, Thinking, Ice Cream

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• I didn't completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career.

  Mindy Kaling

  Nice, Forget, Feminine

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.101, Crown/Archetype

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• Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Taken, Squares, House

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• I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a mishmash of expectations that can never all be met. What one-tenth of my readership may not be crazy about the other nine-tenths savors. The moment you start altering a book or a painting or any type of art as if it's a public collaborative, you crucify its soul. I'd rather irritate a few people and delight a lot than touch no one." ~ Karen Marie Moning

  Karen Marie Moning

  Art, Crazy, Book

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• Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don't know what it is yet.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Book, Writing, Blue

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.71, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  J. K. Rowling

  What Matters, Long, Retreat

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• I have a great career, and I have my daughter. Sio what I don't have is not as important to as what I do have.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Mom, Daughter, Important

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• I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)

  Ray Bradbury

  Mean, Math, Men

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• Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats. Mariano the Third built bigger boats. And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Son, Land

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• I'm just going to take this in a minute. The wrestling world, we're kind of our own breed and different from maybe some movie stars who have their big speeches that they do that ends their long career in a roast. You're entire career in the WWE kind of like one big roast, but this is the moment where you get to soak it in and just see what's going on for a minute.

  Amy Dumas

  Stars, Wrestling, Wwe

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• I feel there's so much pressure, especially for women, to declare what their life's going to be and what their career is, and are you married yet? Are you single? But you're 30. And girlfriends are so important. You can have a boyfriend or husband when you're 30, but you still need your girlfriends.

  Kristen Wiig

  Girlfriend, Husband, Important

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• Becoming a mother has helped me to realize who I am aside from my career.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mother, Who I Am, Becoming

  Marie Claire Interview, www.nydailynews.com. January 2012.

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• Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

  Peter Drucker

  Growing Up, Eight, Here I Am

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• I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

  Trish Stratus

  Friends, Taken, Wrestling

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