Career Management Quotes

The pastoral vocation in America is embarrassingly banal. It is banal because it is pursued under the canons of job efficiency and career management. It is banal because it is reduced to the dimensions of a job description. It is banal because it is an idol – a call from God exchanged for an offer by the devil for work that can be measured and manipulated at the convenience of the worker. Holiness is not banal. Holiness is blazing… ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Having a more experienced and successful counselor guiding someone in a chosen profession is wise decision and good career move. ~ Jose A. Aviles

Unlike the student protests in the 1960s, by using religion and multiculturalism as a cover, we brought an entirely foreign lexicon to the table. We knowingly presented political demands disguised as religion and multiculturalism, and deliberately labelled any objection to our demands as racism and bigotry. Even worse, we did this to the very generation who had been socialist sympathisers in their youth, people sympathetic to charges of racism, who were now in middle-career management posts; people like Dave Gomer. It is no wonder then that the authorities were unprepared to deal with politicised religion as ideological agitation, and felt racist if they tried to stop us. ~ Maajid Nawaz

Study the lives of highly successful people from any corner of life, across history, in any environment, and you will discover they share one trait: They keep moving forward. Sometimes slowly. Often with great difficulty. Frequently after painful mistakes, defeats, or failures. Success is less about talent and opportunities, and more about commitment and motivation. ~ Joe Jordan

Obviously, I'm at the beginning of my career, contrary to what anyone else thinks. I'm 19 years old. In any other country, everywhere else, you're a prospect. And that's what I am right now in Europe. I'm a prospect. I'm not a seasoned veteran. ~ Freddy Adu

I never feel burdened or overwhelmed by my work. People tell you to find something you love for a career, and I have. That makes me feel very lucky. ~ Stephan Pastis

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire. ~ Frank Darabont

Why should anyone be surprised at what the men "in power" are capable of --didn't every mad-Judas one of them begin his career by slowly & brutally strangling an innocent child? ~ Kenneth Patchen

I think it's cool when Scorsese will pop up in a movie or something like that. I never want to make a career out of that or anything. I like directing. That's my favorite thing. ~ Jody Hill

My career never suffered from my not being skinny. I never did catwalk work because I was always too big. I couldn't get the clothes over my hips. ~ Heidi Klum

We are only constrained by the boundaries of our imagination ~ David Moffett

The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.' ~ Michael LeBoeuf

Angriness is one the powerful weapon to stand up again. ~ Viral Panchal

Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces. ~ Alan Moore

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ~ Peter F. Drucker

I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever. ~ Anita Baker

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed. ~ Britt Ekland

So grateful for your continued belief in my books. I'd like to thank, most importantly, the fans who have made my career possible, who inspire and galvanize me to write more and better. ~ Lauren Oliver

My biggest concern is always the students who are working toward a certain career - when they limit themselves to just that one option. They need to know that the world is huge - it's an ocean, and there are so many options. It's not the end of the world if they don't get to pursue an apparent childhood dream. ~ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery. ~ Jack Nicklaus

If I had done nothing more than bring McCabe's talents to the attention of what has become a world-wide audience--if I had done only this job, I believe I'd have established myself as a force for mass education and enlightenment with immediate and constructive effects on the thinking portion of the population. My association with McCabe has been enough to build a career for anyone.

{Julius on legendary scholar Joseph McCabe} ~ E. Haldeman-Julius

I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think. ~ John Oliver

My career expertise is as a psychometrician - somebody who builds tests to measure personality. Companies would employ me to build interviews to measure the talents of people before they were hired. ~ Marcus Buckingham

The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble. ~ John Banville

About immigrants from Russia:
Soviet consciousness overlapped with the new American spirits has formed a specific and divisive culture. This culture is full of controversies and combines free will and envy, political conservatism and the desire for equality, ambitiousness in career and cutting corners, and earthliness and spirituality. ~ Leo Pevsner

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down. ~ David Coverdale

Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make. ~ Sheryl Sandberg

The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.' ~ Fernando Torres

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time. ~ Peter Drucker

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team. ~ Vivek Wadhwa

Many thinkers have tried to "naturalize" consumerism in that way, including most social Darwinists, Austrian School economists (Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard), Chicago School economists (George Stigler, Milton Friedman, Gary Becker), Darwinian libertarians, globalization advocates, management gurus, and marketers. Their model (which I call the Wrong Conservative Model, because I think it's wrong, and because it's usually advocated by political conservatives) is: human nature + free markets = consumerist capitalism ~ Geoffrey Miller

If management is people, management must become humanagement ~ Jonas Ridderstrale

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this. ~ Michael Graves

When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career. ~ Alexander Payne

For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management. ~ Ginni Rometty

Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better ~ Meg Jay

up to five hundred genes change their output when a person makes positive lifestyle changes, such as improved diet, moderate exercise, meditation, and stress management. ~ Deepak Chopra

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science. ~ James Henry Breasted

The Naughty List - People who skim or outright skip acknowledgments pages. Please contact the management for your free, all-expenses-paid pass to Christmasland. ~ Joe Hill

Not every person is going to like you in every place you work. That's okay! Accept this, assume an attitude of "fake it till you make it," and use the experience to keep building your skills and moving your career forward. ~ Debra Shigley

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career. ~ Pete Hamill

Do you really want to waste your precious time doing things that are neither important nor urgent? ~ Eddie De Jong

If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career. ~ Larisa Oleynik

On the basis of his work each person is fully entitled to consider himself a part owner of the great workbench at which he is working with everyone else. A way toward that goal could be found by associating labor with the ownership of capital joint ownership of the means of work, sharing by the workers in the management and/or profits of businesses, so-called shareholding by labor, etc. ~ Pope John Paul II

Strange to wake-up this morning as a former ODI cricketer, but it's been a great honour and privilege playing for Sri Lanka during the past 15 years. At the end of the day, I am very fortunate to have enjoyed a long career playing with and against some great players. Thanks for all the encouragement and support over the years. ~ Kumar Sangakkara

I believe there no surer path to leaping dramatically forward in your career than to earn a Ph.D. in the humanities. Because the thought leaders in our industry are not the ones who plodded dully, step by step, up the career ladder. The leaders are the ones who took chances and developed unique perspectives. ~ Damon Horowitz

Each [co-worker] works his or her way, not your way. And each is entitled to work in his or her way. What matters is whether they perform and what their values are. As far as how they perform--each is likely to do it differently. The first secret to effectiveness is to understand the people you work with and depend on so that you can make use of their strengths, their ways of working, and their values. Working relationships are as much based on the people as they are on the work. ~ Peter Drucker

I've learned in my career, it is much better to be recognized for all the great things you do on the field. ~ Alex Rodriguez