Careers Quotes - Page 9

• When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between.

  Rick Jarow

  Doors, Long, Hallways

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• Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

  Joe Baca

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

  Ruth Benedict

  Mind, Needs, Havens

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.3, Transaction Publishers

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• I dont plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

  Nick Johnson

  Opportunity, Interesting, Finance

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• I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

  Orlando Bloom

  Inspiring, Hero, Stage

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• I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.

  Jon Stewart

  Looks, Want, Proud

  Orange County Register, July 9, 1999.

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• 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

  Wings, Luck, Trouble

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• Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Writing, Men, Self

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.158, Penguin UK

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s.

  Kim Wilde

  Way, Built, 80s

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• I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

  Harrison Ford

  Giving Up, Focus, Pleasure

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• The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

  Marcel Achard

  Writing, Firsts, Virtue

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• 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

  Talking, Over You, Looks

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• I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.

  Barry Mann

  Wife, Guts, Knows

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I'm doing everything I can to sabotage my career. It's a little thing called "fear of success".

  Jon Stewart

  Success, Jobs, Fear

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• Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

  Richard Gere

  Actors, Knows, Has Beens

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• You look for stars. You look for the makeup of artists who can have long lasting careers and who could be headliners.

  Clive Davis

  Stars, Commitment, Makeup

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• I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

  Meryl Streep

  Kids, People, Four

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• A little integrity is better than any career.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Littles, Moral Ethics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.233, University of Missouri Press

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• I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

  Mickey Rourke

  Wise, Anger, Anger Inside

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• If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.

  Larisa Oleynik

  Ifs, My Friends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  People, Appreciate, Looks

  "Orioles' Palmeiro Suspended for Steroids". www.foxnews.com. August 1, 2005.

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• I just feel that at this particular time in my career, I've reached the pinnacle of my career, I've achieved a lot in that short amount of time, if you want to call it short, but I just feel that I don't have anything else to myself to prove.

  Michael Jordan

  Success, Pinnacle, Feels

  "Michael Jordan Statement". articles.chicagotribune.com. October 07, 1993.

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• He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

  George Eliot

  Appreciation, Men, Appreciate

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.107, Penguin

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