Careers Quotes - Page 10

• Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

  Ruth Benedict

  Mind, Needs, Havens

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.3, Transaction Publishers

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• A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

  James Bryce

  Political, Quality, Human Nature

  "Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship". Book by Owen Wister, p. 66, 1930.

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• Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Writing, Men, Self

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.158, Penguin UK

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• A little integrity is better than any career.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Littles, Moral Ethics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.233, University of Missouri Press

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• I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

  Meryl Streep

  Kids, People, Four

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• I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

  Mickey Rourke

  Wise, Anger, Anger Inside

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• If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.

  Larisa Oleynik

  Ifs, My Friends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Kim Wilde

  Way, Built, 80s

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• When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between.

  Rick Jarow

  Doors, Long, Hallways

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• I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  People, Appreciate, Looks

  "Orioles' Palmeiro Suspended for Steroids". www.foxnews.com. August 1, 2005.

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• I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

  Harrison Ford

  Giving Up, Focus, Pleasure

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• The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

  Marcel Achard

  Writing, Firsts, Virtue

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• I just feel that at this particular time in my career, I've reached the pinnacle of my career, I've achieved a lot in that short amount of time, if you want to call it short, but I just feel that I don't have anything else to myself to prove.

  Michael Jordan

  Success, Pinnacle, Feels

  "Michael Jordan Statement". articles.chicagotribune.com. October 07, 1993.

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• He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

  George Eliot

  Appreciation, Men, Appreciate

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.107, Penguin

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• I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.

  Jack Wild

  Talking, Over You, Looks

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• I dont plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

  Nick Johnson

  Opportunity, Interesting, Finance

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• I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.

  Barry Mann

  Wife, Guts, Knows

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

  Richard Gere

  Actors, Knows, Has Beens

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• The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

  Adam Baldwin

  Mean, Keys, People

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• The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Time, Work

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 12, 2017

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• Here's a pointer culled from the careers of men who have attained notable success: Don't sit in your office during the hours prospects can be seen. Do your office work before or after the hours during which possible customers can be reached. This may mean adding an hour or two quite often to your day's work; but in times like this particularly, the securing of a satisfactory amount of business through the expenditure of an extra hour or two a day is not an unreasonable price to pay.

  B. C. Forbes

  Mean, Men, Office Work

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• I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me.

  Heikki Kovalainen

  Choices, Racing, Progress

  "Q&A: Heikki Kovalainen, Lotus F1". Interview with Matt Salisbury, www.crash.net. December 14, 2009.

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