A huge number of jobs that are filled are never advertised to the public, or if they are, they’re filled by people who have a connection to the employer.
~ Melanie Pinola
Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.
~ Auliq Ice
You can never stop being a teacher. It is the core responsibility of a leader.
~ Alex Malley
As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know that my biggest mistakes have turned into my best lessons and sometimes my greatest career triumphs. If my life had been turbulence-free, no bumps in the road at all, maybe my music would be beige, maybe the stadiums wouldn’t be full and the mantle would be a little more empty.
~ Taylor Swift
Regrets begin the moment we're comfortable with settling.
~ Andrena Sawyer
Perfecting is a journey...There is no destination called perfection.
~ Ashok Kallarakkal
Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.
~ Richard Koch
Everything in life, except her kids, made her impatient. She had tried to do a million things. She'd wanted to be a documentary filmmaker and then a painter and then a tiny-ceramic-figure maker. None of it panned out. She'd be full of enthusiasm at first, full of big ideas and energy and drive, but it would all gradually evaporate and disappear. She could never maintain the momentum or the concentration or the confidence she needed to get anything done.
~ Miriam Toews
Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.
~ Antonella Gambotto-Burke
When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top
~ Benny Bellamacina
I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine - anything from a mutated baddy in a comic book action thriller, to a detective. If anything, I'd like Gary Oldman's career: he's the perfect example of it. I've love to have a really broad sweep of characters - to be able to do something edgy, surprising and unfashionable.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
My only career goal is to be an halloween icon.
~ Nuno Roque
Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
~ Jeff Bezos
I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?
~ Ryan Lilly
Write your own part. It's the only way I've ever gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It forces you to think about what your strengths really are, and once you find them, you can showcase them, and nobody can stop you.
~ Mindy Kaling
It is common to come across a perfectionist at work. Life is not that tough if you have a perfectionist sub-ordinate, life is a bit tough when you have a perfectionist peer, life is toughestwhen you have a perfectionist supervisor!
~ Abhishek Ratna
Your career is your business.
In a race, what matters is not who started first, but who finished first.
Career is just posh slavery.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
There's no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equals as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that's that. I am not talented. I am obsessed.
~ Conor Mcgregor
Burnout is a war that must be won on two fronts.
~ Jeanine Joy
Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.
~ Gabrielle Hamilton
If you're not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn't choose.
~ Jay Perry
The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do without again.
~ Carson Mccullers
Would any of you like to share your career aspirations within the class? Jim?I dunno, to be honest, I was just hoping to be able to keep the demons away...
~ Jillian Tamaki
A worthy life means showing up when showing up is the only thing to do. Goodness bears itself out in millions of ordinary ways across the globe, for the rich and poor, the famous and unknown, in enormous measures and tiny, holy moments. It may involve a career and it may not. It may include traditional components and it may not.
~ Jen Hatmaker
A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.
~ Christopher Bram
As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities. It's not always easy to make the transition from a beautiful London park filled with children to a war zone, but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war- to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.
~ Lynsey Addario
Everybody needs a career manager.- Lady Macbeth
~ Robert Lynn Asprin
You must showcase your work, achievements and performance in the best possible manner.
It doesn't matter whether you do small or big Job, what matters is job Contentment.
~ Mohith Agadi
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night
~ Marilyn Monroe
I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
~ Maya Angelou
Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No, scratch the word career. Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.
~ Emily Giffin
What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
~ Barbara Sher
Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.
In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there’s no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.
~ Les Claypool
Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters--or you're just fooling around.