2,702 Quotes About Careers

  • Author Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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    My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many ways including my pursuing a career as a brew master.

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  • Author Kristy McNichol
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    A lot of people have wondered what Ive been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

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  • Author Larry McMurtry
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    I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.

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  • Author Leslie Mann
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    Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.

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  • Author Leslie Moonves
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    I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.

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  • Author Lionel Messi
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    Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given.

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  • Author Louis Menand
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    I do worry a lot about the time it takes for people to get a PhD, about the difficulty of finding employment, about the difficulty of getting tenure, and generally about the perception that undergraduates have, that this is a very high-risk career to get started.

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