Careers Choices Quotes

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life. ~ Brandon Lee

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. ~ Gloria Steinem

MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one. ~ Douglas Coupland

Sometimes you just need some reassurance about your Choice before you take any decision. ~ Auliq Ice

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. ~ Lee Iacocca

I think I made the wrong career choice ~ Tony Blair

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time. ~ Denis Waitley

My advice is to make acting your second career choice. ~ Amber Tamblyn

I would be devastated if my son could not have music as part of his curriculum in school. It should not be a choice between culture and technical training - well-rounded students and graduates will make appropriate choices for their careers, but they must also be trained to make appropriate social choices. ~ David Cassidy

I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling. ~ Carol Burnett

Life is about making tough choices. Sometimes you have to go where your career is going. ~ Bill Maher

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day. ~ Tracy Morgan

Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff - I've got the gift of the gab. ~ Tony Blackburn

I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh. ~ Lee Kuan Yew

I've done a lot of independent travelling, which hasn't been the best career choice, but it's been a really great life choice. ~ Nikki Reed

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. ~ Harry Browne

You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not free to alter the consequences of those choices. You will be what you think about what you consistently allow to occupy the stage of your mind. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

Clove!" Cato's voice is much nearer now. I can tell by the pain in it that he sees her on the ground.
"You better run now, Fire Girl," says Thresh.
I don't need to be told twice. I flip over and my feet dig into the hard-packed earth as I run away from Thresh and Clove and the sound of Cato's voice. Only when I reach the woods do I turn back for an instant. Thresh and both large backpacks are vanishing over the edge of the plain into the area I've never seen. Cato kneels beside Clove, spear in hand, begging her to stay with him. In a moment, he will realize it's futile, she can't be saved. ~ Suzanne Collins

The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we're likely to eventually find ourselves in a situation in which we're forced to make difficult choices about our parents, other loved ones, or even ourselves that ultimately boil down to calculations of worth and value. ~ Sheena Iyengar

I never remember having a plan. All I could think about was how I was going to afford to get into college or where I was going to stay because I hated being at home. I didn't really have time to think about anything in the future. I didn't think about a career or anything. I went to uni, got a couple of jobs, so I sort of funded it myself. ~ Ellie Goulding

Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how to nurture the talent of selection. Book browsing is a meditative art ... Books are as essential as breathing. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Life in communism is clear, you have only one choice !

Life in Socialism you have limited choices, but still is not your choice

Life in Democracy you supposed to have many choices, but you have to pick one is offer to you.

I thought being free is making your own choices and not picking the choices are offered to us. ~ "Beta" Metani' Marashi

If the omnivore's dilemma is to determine what is good and safe to eat amid the myriad and occasionally risky choices nature puts before us, then familiar flavor profiles can serve as a useful guide, a sensory signal of the tried and true. To an extent, these familiar blends of flavor take the place of the hardwired taste preferences that guide most other species in their food choices. They have instincts to steer them; we have cuisines. ~ Michael Pollan

the tougher you are on yourself, the easier life will be on you. The quality of your life ultimately is shaped by the quality of your choices and decisions, ones that range from the career you choose to pursue to the books you read, the time that you wake up every morning and the thoughts you think during the hours of your days. When you consistently flex your willpower by making those choices that you know are the right ones (rather than the easy ones), you take back control of your life. ~ Robin S. Sharma

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

No one ever went broke by saying no too often. ~ Harvey MacKay

Christmas embodies everything that I need. However, everything that I need is often made up of a lot of stuff I don't want. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

My first murder was thrilling because I had embarked on the career I had chosen for myself, the career of murder. ~ John Christie

But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That place is the private garden. ~ Allen Lacy

Life is full of tough choices between less-than-perfect alternatives. ~ Maryanne O'Hara

Medicaid only allowed you three choices of
frames ... ugly, uglier, and fuckin rape prevention birth control! ~ Jeff Erno

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. ~ Hans Jonas

I know it sounds very typical to say, but the best part of being an actor, and the reason why I think a lot of actors do it, is that it's always changing. You get to play so many things that it's like you've had so many different careers. ~ Jerry Ferrara

But at a certain point in our lives, we cannot passively allow our upbringing to define us. We must choose it or choose other. ~ Jon Skovron

Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets. ~ Victor Ponta

Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom ... Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. Since these cannot be separated from the human organism and the social scene, the moral ways of man cannot be understood without knowledge of the ways of things and institutions. ~ Sidney Hook

If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make, but while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause ~ Jim Rohn

I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm to my career and love it more, I have a sense that storytelling is healing, in many ways. You can reach an audience and heal, and by heal, I mean entertain and provoke. It's a wonderful life. ~ Ben Kingsley

I say "illusion" of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are too weak, apathetic and easily placated. They often can be tempted into doing Nothing. ~ Geoffrey Wood

The great name of the Dollys was Milton, and ... if you named a son Milton it was a decision that attempted to chart the life he'd live before he even stepped into it, for among Dollys the name carried expectations and history ... Jessops, Arthurs, Haslams and Miltons were born to walk only the beaten Dolly path to the shadowed place, live and die in keeping with those blood-line customs fiercest held.
Ree and Mom both had shouted and shouted and shouted against Harold becomeing a Milton, since Sonny was already a Jessop ... Ree'd a thousand times wished she'd fought longer for sonny, Shouted him into an Adam or Leotis or Eugene, shouted until he was named to expect choices. ~ Daniel Woodrell

This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours. ~ Andrew Klavan

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

Make the difficult choices and adopt the discipline regime required of a person who has set their mind to succeed, kiss mediocrity goodbye and translate an ordinary life to the extraordinary. It takes personal commitment of time and resources, and a sacrifice of non-essential pleasures to move towards success. ~ Archibald Marwizi

You're the one who has to live with your choice. Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will. ~ Robyn Schneider

Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'. ~ Peter Drucker

What is life but this? Choices made early in a relationship determine the course. ~ Frances Mayes

Do you think that romantic love is natural; that the life of trade is honorable; that freedom of worship is desirable? Very likely you think none of those things; you have uncritically absorbed them, and only since you came to college begun to learn that they are al comparatively recent and local notions, the products of past conflicts and choices. As the hand of the dyer is tinged by what it works in, so your tastes, ambitions, and values take their quality from a context that was created for you before you were born. ~ Denham Sutcliffe

By now he had learned. Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains. It had happened with Michela and then with Alice and again now. He recognized them this time: those seconds were there, and he would never make a mistake again. ~ Paolo Giordano