I’m a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers.
If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it’s the best way to learn.
The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Like I always say, one doesn’t know what can happen in the future, but if it were up to me to decide, I would stay at Barcelona for the rest of my career.
Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career – novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.
I feel like my entire career and life, I’ve been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was such little to go on out there.
You see, rock and roll isn’t a career or hobby – it’s a life force. It’s something very essential.
I describe my career path as a zigzag, not a ladder.
My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.
Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.
An artist’s career always begins tomorrow.
I really enjoy doing remixes, but I don’t want to be known as just a ‘remix artist’ for the rest of my career.
Have a picture in mind of the kind of career you want, the kind of writer you want to be. This will help you make tough decisions when you reach crossroads – choosing an agent, deciding to accept deals.
When you step foot into your first professional tournament, everything you’ve done in your amateur career really doesn’t matter any more.
I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too ‘done’ and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.
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.
If there is one thing that all players have in common it is that winning, competitive gene; the ability to overcome obstacles and fight for what you want from your career.
For the first six years of my career I was independent. I got on to a major and did my thing there. I had platinum and gold records and all that.
My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
In the business world, I did fairly well, but wasn’t happy. A bout of sciatica put me flat on my back. All I could do was read, listen to my mother’s stories about the Sandovals, and daydream: a return to self. My writing career had begun.
Of course, ‘I Will Always Love You’ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.
I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming ‘War Horse’ on Dartmoor.
Losing my father at a tender age was hard, and I felt it more so while growing up when I needed a father to talk to. Especially while pursuing an acting career where I would have loved his guidance and advice, since it was his passion as well.
Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.
I’m an entrepreneur. This is my life. This my career. This the way I eat.
I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you’re at the top, it’s so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.
People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.
I’ve been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.
If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‘No.’
I think, thinking back earlier in my career, if I would have been told that I would be starting an All-Star Game at age 34, I’d be pretty happy about that.
I can see why people change. You get complimented all the time, driven around in a black SUV – your life is crazy. But that’s your career, not you.
My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
My career path is like crazy paving – it goes all over the place.
Being part of a fraternity has given me the foundation for everything I do in my career from the loyalty to the determination; it laid the foundation for everything I’ve been able to enjoy. I’m heavily involved with Omega Psi Phi.
My career is my girlfriend.
My career has been a roller coaster ride. And every actor experiences that phase.
I flew everywhere for the first 10 years of my career, and I started to not like commercial transport. I just don’t feel safe.
I’m rapping, I’m hooping, I’m on a max-contract, I got a big shoe deal. Everything is good now. So of course, the support is going to be there, the love is going to be there, but what’s going to happen when it changes or when I’m on the back-end of my career or when I ain’t on TV all the time?
The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.
I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.
I don’t pay much attention to career or what other people think. I’ve always been quite arrogant.
The whole thought of a career with computers – given that hardly anybody even knew what they were – it wasn’t even a concept.
I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.
His potential is greater and higher than Everton as a final destination. If Romelu was to play at Everton until the end of his career I know he has left something behind.
Bill Goldberg kicked me in the head and ended my career because he didn’t know what he was doing.
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.
On a personal note, I think it won’t be until after I’ve retired that I’m fully aware of what I’ve done or what I’ve gone on to achieve in my career.
There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.
I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
Career highlights? I had two – I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.
Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
I’d like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn’t know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.
I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.
DePaul’s plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and destroyed my career because of my virtues. Which, although few in number, they still found threatening.
Mark Winchester has left the band. He’s decided that he’s tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don’t blame him at all. He’ll certainly be missed.
Sometimes, you mustn’t think about risking your career and make a decision right from your heart.
Angus has had a few swings at me, maybe two or three times in our whole career. But then it’s done, and it’s not gonna drag on, because it’s not worth it. We have to stick together. And we know that.
My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.
Nobody likes a smart alec. Which is why it’s always better for your career to be wrong and in company rather than right and on your own.
I think there’s no sacrifice too great for family, whether it’s career, singing, whatever.
Acting is a career where you keep learning with every film you do.
