Career Quotes

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

Life, Winning, Game

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

Night, Wonderful, Cold

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
Abdul Kalam

Strength, Whether, Top

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw

Political, Nothing, Everything

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Audrey Hepburn

Experience, Made, Star

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao Tzu

Two, Else, Flower

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.
Michael Jordan

Goal, Majority, Becoming

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
Marilyn Monroe

Talent, Public, Born

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.
Eminem

Understand, Able, Off

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Earl Nightingale

Job, Remember, Working

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
Frank Sinatra

Respect, Done, Cannot

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite

Love, Food, Mothers

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

Important, Play, Between

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.
Barack Obama

Care, Fighting, Issues

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

End, Feeling, Person

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.
Oprah Winfrey

Sick, Problems, Next

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.
Mitt Romney

Time, Political, Made

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Gloria Steinem

Marriage, Women, Men

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.
Bill Gates

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
Orison Swett Marden

Life, Yourself, Character

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
Paulo Coelho

Death, Parents, Thought

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot

Life, Time, Poetry

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

Love, Writing, Matter

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.
Jim Carrey

Laugh, Cry, Theater

One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.
Hillary Clinton

Judge, After, Around

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.
Paul J. Meyer

Success, Human, Personal

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

Public, Knows, Wants

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Brian Tracy

Life, Person, Wish

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

Necessary, Analyzing, Ingredient

Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.
Nicole Polizzi

Said, Wrong, Vision

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