Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sugata Mitra

Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time.

Sylvester McCoy

Variety has always been in my mind: to do something totally different. I've had a parallel career since the beginning. On one track, the TV and film, the other, theatre, but they never crossed.

Hugh Jackman

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

Gail Sheehy

The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.

I contemplated a career at NIH at one point. I have a neuroscience background.

Ben Schnetzer

When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I really admire and whose work I really admire were English and English trained. I felt there was a real vocational feel to work in the U.K.

Bo Burnham

My career was exploding at the same time that social media itself was expanding. But when my online videos were taking off, I didn't think, 'Oh, great! I'm going to be able to parlay this into a career!' I just wanted to be a comedian. I just wanted to perform live.

Ram Dass

My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

When people are looking for federal judges, they're looking for people who are safe, sound and reliable. These are criteria that favor people who have chosen conventional careers in the law.

When other people have told you your whole career you can't do it, to do it is pretty special. I just want to have fun while it's here.

John Travolta

When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.

Bernie Sanders

Being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.

Bernie Sanders

Hillary Clinton is a person who has enormous - I have enormous respect for, has a very distinguished career.

We want to give her every opportunity to be a career gymnast.

We want to give girls in particular the early and continuing exposure to information and creative IT career choices.

We want to encourage young people to consider public service in local government management as a career option.

Suzanne Farrell

To have been part of that evening -- and now I am truly honored and privileged. I loved dancing and how fortunate I am to have had a career I loved doing.

Louis Orr

This year, my whole experience here at Seton Hall, has been a test of faith, of perseverance, of endurance. No matter what happens to me in my career from this point on, this year will always (remind me) about God's faithfulness.

This year has been such a roller coaster. I want some stability. I just can't find that in my career right now.

Yvan Cournoyer

When I was told my number was going to be retired, my whole career ran through my head, ... I first went to the Forum as a 17-year-old and I retired at 35. I thought, 'Wow! Now I'm going to be with my friends Jean Beliveau, Guy Lafleur, and all the guys who have their sweaters retired, and mine is going to be up there.' It's something so special.

Carmelo Anthony

I'm not at the point in my career where I want to rebuild.

Kevin Johnson

I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.

Moby

Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.

Moby

The moment a career is on a quantitative downswing, your loathsomeness is sort of attenuated.

Moby

'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.

Mindy Kaling

I would be the first to admit that I have incredibly high, ambitious standards for my life and my career, and I've had those my entire life. It's something that was just instilled in me by my parents.

Mike Rowe

People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

Mickey Rourke

Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers.

Kurt Russell

I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.

Kurt Russell

If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.

Kirsten Dunst

I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.

Kim Wilde

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

Kim Cattrall

You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?