Career quotes

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For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.

- Ron Silver

There's not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it's very fortunate and a blessing for me.

- Ryne Sandberg

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.

- Kit Williams

While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career.

- Christy Romano

I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39.

- Tim Hardaway

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

- Alanis Morissette

I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.

- Duane G. Carey

I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children.

- Ron Darling

Around New York, our group had become known as 'Dee Dee and her girls' because we were used on everything, so going out on a solo career wasn't as much a big deal to me.

- Dee Dee Warwick

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

- David Friedman

Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras.

- John Negroponte

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.

- Judy Collins

Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him.

- Jennifer Connelly

I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.

- Bruce Jenner

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

- Vinton Cerf

I miss my singing career very much.

- Elvis Presley

I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career.

- Steve Spurrier

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

- Donald Sutherland

It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.

- Tony Parker

On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

- Gary Larson

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.

- Lawrence Taylor

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.

- Mats Sundin

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

- Donald Cram

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

- Gerry Cooney

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

- Jim Carrey

We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit.

- Jennifer Connelly

Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

- Sally Kellerman

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

- Daniel Nathans

I don't know if I was a star. I was certainly working a lot and that was strange because there were good things about it and things that were difficult.

- Jennifer Connelly

In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet.

- Charlie Hunnam