Professional Life Quotes

• I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Team, Reality, Self

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• The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Littles, Prize

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• I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

  Lucas Papademos

  Europe, Politician, Economic

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• Throughout my professional life, I have looked upon the Corps as a most valuable part of our naval organization, and this opinion has only been the more confirmed by every year's additional experience in active service.

  Samuel Francis Du Pont

  Life, Military, Marine

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• Football became my obvious metaphor as it does for many, and I began to equate this as being 'halftime' in my life. As I reflected on my professional life I realized how much time I had spent trying to make first downs and score touchdowns. My focus had now changed into trying to be more about people and serving others.

  Marc Trestman

  Football, People, Focus

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• It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

  Gregory Bateson

  Years, Sphinx, Fifty

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• My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

  Harry Houdini

  Men, Records, Wonderful

  Harry Houdini (2007). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: A Complete ExposT”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful

  Karolina Kurkova

  Beautiful, Balance, Looks

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• I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Children, Selfish, People

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

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• My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

  Bill de Blasio

  My Family, Public Service, Has Beens

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

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• There is a common perception that compassion is, if not actually an impediment, at least irrelevant to professional life. Personally, I would argue that not only is it relevant, but that when compassion is lacking, our activities are in danger of becoming destructive. This is because when we ignore the question of the impact our actions have on others' well-being, inevitably we end up hurting them.

  Dalai Lama

  Hurt, Compassion, Impact

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• I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made that much as a waiter or an insurance salesman. You know, I spent so many years in my 20's making $10,000 a year.

  Sebastian Junger

  Thinking, Years, Made

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• To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Men, Succeed, Life Is

  "Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Looking down on creation". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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• Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and King Lear, that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond.

  Sam Mendes

  Kings, Commitment, Years

  "Sam Mendes Won't Direct Bond 24". Interview with Phil De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. March 6, 2013.

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• Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all American Playwrights has always made me feel that I am returning as much to the theatre as I withdraw. Because only playwrights can ensure the well-being of playwrights. No one else will do it for us.

  Peter Stone

  Theatre, Crafts, Made

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• I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Nice, Clothes, Creating

  "How I get dressed" by Neil Norman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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• My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Vices, Vice Versa, Personal Life

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• I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.

  Jose Mourinho

  Minutes, Enjoy

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• The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Passion, People

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• I have enjoyed anchoring at 'Headline News' but have decided that it is time for me to make a change in my daily professional life.

  Andrea Thompson

  News, Making Changes, Headlines

  "Thompson leaves CNN Headline News", www.cnn.com. March 14, 2002.

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• I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living

  Harold Budd

  America

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• You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.

  Norah O'Donnell

  Optimistic, Focus, Challenges

  "The Worst Thing You Can Do on a Job Interview (According to CBS This Morning's Norah O'Donnell)" by Maggie Mallon, www.glamour.com. June 21, 2013.

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• I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Demand, Constant, Personal And Professional Life

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!

  Elton John

  Son, Giving, Wow

  "Elton John confirms film project based on his life" by Matthew Taylor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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• I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Jobs, Men, Skills

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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