Career Quotes

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

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

I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

My life and career is my own adventure.

I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be.

It wasn't as though he didn't have choices. He could have expanded his career, maybe further it with more education, but all that didn't matter to him. I think 9/11 was the catalyst for the whole thing. I was scared to death of his decision to put himself in harm's way. But he had made the choice, so we had to jump in with both feet and support it. Most kids aren't that selfless. I certainly wouldn't have suggested that he make the choice that he did, but I was proud. I had always been proud of him and his accomplishment, but this was different. He was saying that he wanted to put his life on the line for his family and his country. It changes the way you look at your son.

I had spent my career prosecuting people accused of murder saying murder was wrong. I couldn't justify saying murder is wrong for everyone but us.

Because of my career I now have a totally different look on the world. If I encounter a girl of 18 years, I have to realize every time that I'm not living in their world of thoughts anymore. I have been through a lot and I've seen too much.

Right now I'm pretty single . . . . My career is my boyfriend.

I don't dwell on whether I am an overachiever. After my career is over I will sit down and evaluate what I have done. Until then, all I can do is go out every day and do the best I can.

I'm not trying to make every kid an astronaut, but I want kids to think about a career and the preparation they'll need.

You have to catch them young. We start with the kids through high school health-career clubs, to grow our own health care professionals and shape their education more locally.

Very early in my career, I became disappointed with the limitations of make up. There's only so much you can build up on some people before it stops looking believable and starts looking like a mask. You're also limited by the face that you're working with. If you have a big nose, the make up has to have a big nose.

[Franklin received the Lena Horne Award for outstanding career achievements and gave two rousing performances ?] Until You Come Back to Me ... Respect.

That season with the Phantoms was the best thing for my career.

That's all behind me. I am ready to move on. This makes the end of my career more special.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done.

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image.