Careers Quotes - Page 6

• Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Discipline, World, Superstar

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.

  Anne McCaffrey

  House, Thrill, Stories

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• If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.

  Michael Ealy

  Couple, People, Looks

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• I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .

  Chris Corrigan

  Business, Ambition, Opportunity

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• Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

  Mark Rydell

  Stars, Talking, Long

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• I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

  Ben Stiller

  Movie, Way, Comedy

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• Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

  Robertson Davies

  Inspirational, Single Life, Career Success

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• I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Business, Together, Hot

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• When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

  Bob Geldof

  Years, Stones, Kink

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• I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Thinking, Ice, Long

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. February 13, 2002.

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• Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

  Tony Curtis

  Opportunity, Able, Painting

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• Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Moving, Female, Needs

  Gary Carey, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1972). “More about All about Eve”

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• I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career.

  Teri Garr

  Thinking, May, Myth

  "Multiple Sclerosis". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2004.

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• I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

  Jacob Lew

  Thinking, Differences, People

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• Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

  Ivy Baker Priest

  Life, Women, Two Sides

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• I'd just thank the people out there who have been with my up-and-down, weird-road, strange career and supported me and stuck with me all these years. I mean, they're my boss. That's what keeps me working.

  Johnny Depp

  Mean, Years, People

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• My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

  Randy Travis

  Dad, Kids, Guitar

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• There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

  Dorothy Fields

  Doctors, Lawyer, Reason

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• Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, College, Play

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• Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

  Sam Ewing

  Boyfriend, Father, Manage

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• If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

  Jane Fonda

  Unexpected, Inconvenience, Chosen

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• He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Political

  Major Barbara (1907) act 3

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• My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Umpires, Vip, Want

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• I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

  Gloria Steinem

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Fourth - and by Far the Most Recent - 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990)

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• Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

  Ann Oakley

  Fitness, Mother, Humorous

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage

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