Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilu Henner

Wherever my career takes me, I know I'll love getting there, because ever since I was 2 1/2 years old, I knew that this was all I ever wanted to do.

Nick Cave

A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

Nicholas Lea

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

Mortimer Adler

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

Mischa Barton

I have a career, I worked so hard for it.

Pharrell Williams

The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God.

Peter Drucker

Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'.

Peter Asher

Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.

Penelope Wilton

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

Peggy Noonan

The thing political figures fear most is a terror event that will ruin their careers. The biggest thing they fear is that a bomb goes off and it can be traced to something they did or didn't do, an action they did or didn't support. They all fear being accused of not doing enough to keep the citizenry safe.

Paulo Coelho

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Marnie Stern

It seems to me, that's the only thing that ends up being really fulfilling or satisfying - your career.

Marlene Dietrich

I never ever took my career seriously.

Mariska Hargitay

The only reason I have the career I have is that I didn't quit.

Marjane Satrapi

I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.

Maria Sharapova

I can't say I don't like acting, but I can't imagine a career when I have to spend 70 percent of my time in a trailer eating Snickers bars.

Maria Sharapova

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

Maria Sharapova

You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far, but it's not over yet.

Megan Gallagher

My career is very important and I'm pretty ambitious. Marriage is not a priority, not the focus of my existence. Of course, you don't plan something like that, do you? It always catches you by surprise.

Rafael Nadal

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

Nina Jacobson

I was an executive before I was a producer, and I've seen franchise fever grow, over the course of my career. The one thing that people always forget is that it's only a franchise if audiences really want to see more of it. It's up to them. It's really not up to us.

Nolan Ryan

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

Nicole Kidman

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

Nicole Kidman

I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.

Abdul Kalam

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Jennifer Lopez

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

Jeff Daniels

I know I'm not bipolar or schizophrenic, but this career allows you to explore, to take some facets of yourself and spin it.

Jean-Marc Vallee

In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

Jack Lemmon

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

Ira Sachs

So there's a choice that I made to tell stories that are still psychological melodramas about domestic issues. The challenge is to figure out how to make 10 films a career as a filmmaker, and that's a really challenging thing.

Imelda Staunton

Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

Jack Nicklaus

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.