Quotes about Career

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn't imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

I went straight from high school to Bible college for two years. Then I started doing music right out of Bible college full time. I did independent stuff for three years.

In your career, even more than for a brand, being safe is risky. The path to lifetime job security is to be remarkable.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.

The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.

Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.

The best way to advance in a career is to get great results while working with people.