Careers Quotes

• Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.

  Brian Tracy

  Done, Proportion, Expected

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

  Carlton Fisk

  Powerful, New Job, Overcoming

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• Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

  Herbert Gold

  Memories, Nerves, Literature

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• Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Decision, Inspire, Satisfaction

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• The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Boys, Essentials, Firsts

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.

  Johnny Carson

  Doing What You Love, Work You Love, Loving What You Do

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• The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

  Ron Perlman

  Birthday, Age, Arriving

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• So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

  Lionel Richie

  People, Way, Using Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Lucky, Want, Strange

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• The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

  James Woods

  Independent, Film, Has Beens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most saints live to regret their career choice.

  Bob Stokes

  Inspirational, Regret, Work

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• The decisions you make about your work life are especially important, since most people spend more of their waking lives working than doing anything else. Your choices will affect, not only yourself and those closest to you, but in some way the whole world.

  Laurence Boldt

  Decisions You Make, People, Choices

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.218, Penguin

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• The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Writing, May, Colorful

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

  Dizzy Dean

  Baseball, Yankees, Wind

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• I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Hockey, Thinking

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• I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

  James Ellroy

  Writing, Play, Detectives

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• Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.

  Kit Williams

  Hands, Looks, Faces

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• The coolest thing is that my sister and I, you know, we've done what a lot of people have not been able to do. Which is to have our own careers, together.

  Tia Mowry

  Sister, People, Together

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• Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.

  Richard Harris

  Kids, Choices, Drug

  Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot

  Parker Stevenson

  Stars, Boys, People

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• Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.

  William Petersen

  First Love, Tv Shows, Chicago

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

  Morgan Brittany

  Twilight, Character, Evil

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