Careers Quotes - Page 7

• I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Lou Holtz (1990). “The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame”

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  To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

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• Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, New Job, Analyzing

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• A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Success, New Year

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

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• Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

  Ann Oakley

  Fitness, Mother, Humorous

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage

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• Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, College, Play

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• He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Political

  Major Barbara (1907) act 3

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• I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

  Gloria Steinem

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Fourth - and by Far the Most Recent - 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990)

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• Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Jobs, Work, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Work, Teaching, Learning

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

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• I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

  Hank Aaron

  Past, Balls, Worried

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

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• Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

  Christina Aguilera

  Funny, Cute, Boyfriend

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• I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Loyalty, Winning

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• I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.

  Michael Biehn

  Real, Cowboy, Feelings

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• My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

  Orlando Bloom

  Character, Knights, Play

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• The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

  Ray Bradbury

  Passion, Writing, New Job

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• You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Animal, Grandchildren, Carbon Cycle

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. October 1968.

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• I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

  Mariah Carey

  Past, Goal, Want

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• I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Believe, Wicked World, Want

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• I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.

  Camille Claudel

  Art, Jobs, Long

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• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mother, Humorous, Feminist

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

  Enya

  Red Lipstick, Events, Needs

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

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