Careers Quotes - Page 39

• I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Girl, Home, Years

  Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.133, Macmillan

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• Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Wrestling, Mind, Thrill

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• All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.

  Lisa See

  Love, Dream, Disappointment

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• Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make the most of nature’s design. Are you? Goals will help you do that. I must add, don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Mean, Successful, Order

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• I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.

  Richelle Mead

  Law, Might, Wells

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.87, Penguin

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• I could tell by his expression that once he got over his anger at me for keeping this secret from him, there was nothing left to talk about. He wasn't confused. He didn't need questions answered. He didn't ask why or how or with whom or whether I thought maybe it might just be a phase. He didn't ask who knew and who didn't know or whether I thought it might ruin my career. I was his sister and he didn't care whether I was straight or gay; it simply didn't matter to him.

  Portia de Rossi

  Confused, Gay, Expression

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe careers aren’t something you can really plan for. They just sort of happen, like brown eyes or flat feet. I took one of those career aptitude tests last year, and it showed that I should be a flight attendant or a seamstress. Not a fashion designer or anything, mind you, but a sweatshop worker. Apparently stewardesses and sweatshop workers and I enjoy a lot of the same interests and activities.

  Susan Juby

  Fashion, Eye, Years

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• I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Thinking, Peers

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.20, Anchor

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• And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

  Gayle Forman

  Night, Firsts, Coincidence

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.113, Penguin

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• I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Garden

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• I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

  Candace Bushnell

  Jobs, Quitting

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• The hallway led me to the stairway of a million steps. My leg screamed in protest. I sighed and started climbing. I just had to keep from limping. Limping showed weakness, and I didn’t need any enterprising, career-motivated shapeshifters trying to challenge me for dominance right about now. I had once mentioned my desire for an elevator, and His Majesty asked me if I would like a flock of doves to carry me up to my quarters so my feet wouldn’t have to touch the ground. We were sparring at the time and I kicked him in the kidney in retaliation.

  Ilona Andrews

  Climbing, Feet, Challenges

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• I don’t know what I’m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I’ll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I’ll think about a career path.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Thinking, Years, Worry

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.53, Macmillan

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• See you just don’t understand women the way I do J.D. They want it all: a career apple martinis financial independence great shoes but at the same time—and this they’ll never admit—they are drawn to patriarchal men who are dominant and controlling. That’s the essence of the Darcy complex. He may be an asshole but he’s an asshole that gets the girl in the end.

  Julie James

  Girl, Men, Apples

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.151, Penguin

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• I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.

  Anita Loos

  Thinking, Destiny, Would Be

  Anita Loos (1977). “Cast of Thousands”, Smithmark Pub

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• No scratch the word "career". Careers are people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. This is merely a job. I can take or leave this place. I start to imagine quitting and following my yet-to-be-determined passion.

  Emily Giffin

  Jobs, Passion, People

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.129, Macmillan

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• In the beginning I remember when I would spend three hours a day on MySpace just trying to comment everyone back, and now, I spend a half hour a night on MySpace just putting up new stuff and answering people back and monitoring all the fan sites, and saying hi and thank you. I'm still way on top of it. I haven't grown out of it because it'll always be something that helped launch my career, and I'm going to keep maintaining it.

  Taylor Swift

  Night, People, Trying

  "Taylor Swift" by Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. May 2, 2008.

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• Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

  Stendhal

  Painful, Divine, Vulgar

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• And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.

  Aaron Allston

  Home, Mind, Ruins

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• There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with. You never know who’s going to come into your life - and for me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

  Taylor Swift

  Falling In Love, Love You, Thinking

  "InStyle’s June Cover Girl Is... Taylor Swift!". Interview with Sharon Clott Kanter, www.instyle.com. May 17, 2011.

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• We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

  Mitch Albom

  Missing, Want, Littles

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• I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department, the prof would have looked at my short stories, congratulated me on my talent, and then showed me how Joyce or Hemingway handled the same elements of the short story. The prof would have placed me in competition with the greatest writers of all time, and that would have ended my writing career.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Thinking, Competition

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• I swear that woman had a previous career as a death-hunter selling tragic ballads down around the Seven Dials," said Will. "And I do wish she wouldn't sing about poisoning just after we've eaten.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wish, Hunters, Seven

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter.

  Michael Pollan

  Editors, Tree, Notable

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.17, Penguin

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• Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Children, Choices, Decision

  Peggy Orenstein (2010). “Waiting for Daisy: The True Story of One Couple's Quest to Have a Baby”, p.8, A&C Black

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