Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Coburn

The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.

Tina Fey

This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. You're up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it'll be between you and Barbara. Don't be fooled. You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

Tiffani Thiessen

I really don't have a career plan. I like being challenged and thrown around. But it's only acting.

Sam J. Jones

You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

Sam Huntington

I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.

Sam Elliott

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

Sallie Krawcheck

People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.

Sallie Krawcheck

If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.

Russell Peters

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

Ronald Isley

God has been with me in my whole career.

Stephen Amell

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

Stephen Baldwin

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

Tim Brown

For me certainly Earl Campbell and Tony Dorsett come to mind, and Roger Staubach. I've grown up here in Dallas watching Roger and his playing career and to be in the same fraternity as Roger Staubach is/was a huge deal for me.

Tim Cahill

A lot of the physical flirtation with fear I did early on in my career, when I was a much younger person - stuff I wouldn't do now. But I was very interested in the mechanics of risk and fear in those days. And I found out fear pretty much always feels the same, whether it's doing a rock climb or speaking in front of an audience.

Thomas Keller

Larousse is an invaluable tool for any cook. I've used this great resource all throughout my cooking career, and of course I look forward to the new edition. New information and knowledge are always welcome.

Thomas Keller

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

Vin Diesel

Career diversification ain't a bad thing.

Viggo Mortensen

I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.

Victoria Clark

I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

Victoria Abril

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

Stephen Covey

Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.

Stephen Covey

Life is a mission, not a career.

Stephanie McMahon

I've never felt my gender was an obstacle. There have of course been moments in my career when it has slapped me in the face but the reason I felt it slapped me in the face was because it wasn't something that I had contemplated before.

Vanessa Mae

People find it hard to understand how I can risk ruining my career as a musician by injuring myself on the slopes, but I've always been a tomboy.

Suzanne Farrell

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

Susannah McCorkle

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

Suzanne Collins

If the careers want me, let them find me.

Suzanne Collins

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.

Taylor Swift

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Stephen Lang

I wouldn't say 'Avatar' changed my life, but it definitely changed my career.

Stephen Malkmus

My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's not an alpha male situation, George Oppen. It's quiet. It's poetry.He just lived a life of an intellectual poet.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

You need to have a life outside your career.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.