Ontic Careers Quotes

I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is. ~ John Travolta

Career success is using your daily work, schoolwork, work in the world, work at home, as a way of advancing your mental state. ~ Frederick Lenz

My agent and I try to be picky with roles so that I can drive my career in different directions and be different, creative characters. I want to be an actor for the rest of my life and to have fun with my career. So I told him that I wish I could do a movie that already has a fan base. And then 'Twilight' came along! ~ Kellan Lutz

It's awkward doing it with anybody, but it's like Twister. ~ Robert Pattinson

Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing. ~ Gloria Gaynor

It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break ~ Ronnie O'Sullivan

I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too. ~ William Hung

The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera. ~ Ken Hensley

Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first. ~ Dar Williams

Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honor for me to break Jim Clarks record (as youngest champion), ~ Emerson Fittipaldi

We'll never make Firefly again, because that was a thing that existed and is now gone. And Serenity isn't Firefly, and whatever comes next won't be, either. But I would love to tell more stories of this universe and to hang out with these people on and off for the rest of my career. ~ Joss Whedon

I wouldn't play in Minnesota unless my career was at an end and I had to go to Minnesota to play the game. ~ Torii Hunter

I wasn't pursuing a musical career or anything. It just happened and then it was there. ~ Ian Astbury

Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. (Summary of his photographic career) ~ Slim Aarons

I absolutely admit I had him in the handcuffs so he wouldn't go anywhere while I checked the computer ... I certainly wasn't going to kill him. That's hardly going to do my career any good, is it? ~ Boy George

Michelle Kwan is an incredible artist, she wears her heart on her sleeve when she performs. She has grown so much from every influence in her career, and she has made herself the biggest star there ever will be in figure skating. She's down to Earth, friendly and always positive. Nobody will ever match her longevity or her ability to be such a strong competitor. ~ Johnny Weir

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher. ~ Nolan Ryan

I firmly believe that writers must take full accountability for their careers. It's a business, and part of business is marketing. You wouldn't slap an OPEN sign on the window of your new barber shop, go home, and wait for the money to start rolling in. ~ Alistair Cross

People tried to do a lot of stuff with me early in my career where they tried to shape me into one thing or another. They couldn't just take the chance and go with my vision - which was just my intuition, really. ~ Katy Perry

In every career, you are balancing or negotiating tricky waters. But, I think that's been something nice that comedy has been able to give me a little bit more. I have the ability to laugh at myself and hopefully not take all of this whole world too seriously. ~ Anna Faris

I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to be around for a very long time. I want to be like a Sheryl Crow or a Melissa Etheridge or even a Madonna with how her career has lasted so long and she is still respected in the music business. That's really what I am aiming for. I'm not really looking for 15 minutes of fame. ~ Cheyenne Kimball

By the time they are 30, a few are on the fast track and the rest 'put in their time' to do what matters to them on the weekend. They lose the commitment, the sense of mission, and the excitement with which they started their careers. We get damn little of their energy and almost none of their spirit. ~ Peter M. Senge

My mom didn't run for mayor until she was 65 years old - it was like a second and third career ... The way I've always thought about it is that I don't believe you run for office because you want a job. I believe if you run for office, it's because you have a vision for change. And if I ever came to that point, that's what would lead [me to run]. And right now I'm happily in a position where I believe I can work to deliver impact and work for change. ~ Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't human and tears weren't rolling down my face and I wasn't pissed and I wasn't angry. There are lots of times that those emotions come out in my career. ~ Carli Lloyd

There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience. ~ Brit Hume

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother. ~ Halle Berry

Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career. ~ Bob Hope

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career. ~ Kate Smith

The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders. ~ Andrea Pirlo

I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor. ~ Patrick Huard

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle. ~ William S. Burroughs

What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you. ~ Eddie Redmayne

I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page. ~ H. G. Bissinger

I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets. ~ Charles De Lint

The undead don't care about careers. Vampires are all retirees. ~ Christopher Buehlman

I want to give people jobs and put them on great shows. I want to create careers for people. ~ Aldis Hodge

Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles ... It won't be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: "I want to work 200 kilometers from home-straight up!" ~ Arthur C. Clarke

A certain amount of brick-throwing might even be a good thing. There comes a moment in the career of most artists, if they are any good, when attacks on their work take a form almost more acceptable than praise. That happens at different moments in different careers. ~ Anthony Powell

I have insecurities about being a good mom, or balancing my career with motherhood. All of those are very strong, very real obstacles. My motto is just unconsciously, and maybe now consciously because I'm saying it, is sink or swim. I'm a fighter. ~ Charisma Carpenter