I tell people in their careers, ‘Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.’
When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I really admire and whose work I really admire were English and English trained. I felt there was a real vocational feel to work in the U.K.
Me and my brother are so focused on working together, building our careers.
Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things – they’re repellent and lovable. They’re not likable, but they’re lovable. I think Christine is one of those characters.
Some people get in the way of change happening. Some people spend their whole careers thinking they can make a difference. Other people want to do as little as possible to get the day done.
I have an interest in everything, but I don’t have an interest in starting new careers.
All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can’t bat a thousand all the time.
ICT careers are becoming more complex as a result of the digital revolution, where smarter connections are being made between people, processes, data, and things.
I’ve seen Chance and the Social Experiment build their own careers in the way that’s most authentic to them.
I’ve said for years I could never figure out why Calgary ever drafted me. When I got there, I think they had eight or nine right wingers already. These guys were premiere players. It’s not like they were extremely late in their careers, either.
If you go back to before me doing comedy, my background was dancing and then it was musical theatre, but Im a bit of a comedian as far as my careers gone. You evolve in your career and I think thats a good thing.
If I look at my career financially, I think it’s one of the best careers any fighter’s had.
To be sure, technology will change what we do. Tasks that are highly manual, routine, and predictable will be automated. But jobs are made up of many tasks. So the nature of existing jobs will change, and new careers will be created.
I believe there will be players who, instead of playing eight years, will play six. Who will closely watch how they feel. It will shorten careers.
The executive female talent gap is real, and that’s why it’s critical to champion women throughout their careers.
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
Doctors, engineers, CA’s, IPS officers, MBA, are the most common careers Indian parents choose, whilst deciding for their children.
I’ve had five surgeries that could have ended most people’s careers. But because of the fact that I’m resilient and have a lot of pride, I refused to let myself go out except on my terms. An injury is not going to take me out.
As a leader, I believe it’s important to have an open door with your staff. Those who want to learn and to grow in their careers will walk through that door and into your life. I encourage people to come and seek me out at ‘Frontline’ with good ideas, curiosity, and drive.
Some artists will tell you that’s all they want to do is write their own music, and that’s great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn’t write everything they recorded, and they’ve had major, major careers. I think it’s all about the best song.
I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.
Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.
Unconventional careers are often feared, because they don’t guarantee success or least a job. Hence, parents of most media, art and design professionals worry if their offsprings will ever settle with a steady career.
Young people encounter great challenges at the beginning of their careers.
There needs to be more schemes to help young people build careers in fashion, like apprenticeships.
I have done things politically, and I’ve been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I’ve been doing it as a part-time job.
There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I’m a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I’m a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years.
I know so many acting careers that are deliberately kickstarted by a publicist placing a bit of rubbish in a newspaper. And I don’t want that. If someone recognises me, I want it to be because they’ve seen me in something, not because they have seen me at something.
I read Henry Miller’s ‘Nexus,’ ‘Sexus’ and ‘Plexus’ the summer after I graduated from college. It cemented my decision to spurn any and all careers.
The amazing thing about IBM is that it’s a company where I have had 10 different careers – local jobs, global jobs, technology jobs, industry jobs, financial services, insurance, start-ups, big scale. The network of talent around you is phenomenal.
I personally think that women should have the choice to show as much skin as they’re comfortable with, and it shouldn’t negatively impact their careers.
Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it’s rare to find an artist who hasn’t been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today’s popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.
The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I’ve always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all.
At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.
Conductors’ careers are made for the most part with ‘Romantic’ music. ‘Classic’ music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
I think books are about people that are retired or at the end of their careers.
Beguiling voices in the world cry out for ‘alternative lifestyles’ for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.
Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the ‘fighters,’ meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.
Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.
What’s really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people’s careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.
People who face too many demands – two careers, two children – often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.
Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they’ve already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy – not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.
I think ‘Saturday Night Live’, starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.
The biggest concern for most actors has and always will be getting enough work – it’s just part of our profession – but a real change is the idea that performers have to be more versatile and entrepreneurial in their careers.
We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself.
Gamergate gave birth to a new kind of celebrity troll, men who made money and built their careers by destroying women’s reputations.
A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone’s scared to take a chance. There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
A lot of folks feel like my brother and me or other politicians chart out their careers from Day 1 until the end. I’ve never been like that.
In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art schools like a branch of public relations or political science.
Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don’t even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.
There is a reason that both have had the longevity in their careers that they have had. They have each done very different things throughout their careers and lived really interesting lives. There is a reason why they are up there still. After all, there is only one Barbra Streisand and one Liza Minnelli.
Mourinho and I have similarities in our careers. We didn’t play professionally but our way of playing is not the same.
All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
