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Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
I feel like a new person. Not because of my career, but just because of what I've had to go through to pursue my career.
Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.
I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.
Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?
When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'
It's sad that a lot of identities are lost and a lot of careers are lost because there's sort of a clone thing going on.
You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far, but it's not over yet.
I really don't have no regrets. I think that where I am in the stage of my career and in my life made me who I am today.
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I am the first one to admit I was a novelty.
There are those who build careers and companies just out of being popular on Instagram, but there's nothing behind them.
I think the career of President Mitterrand, which was rather sensational when it was revealed, is probably very typical.
None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.
I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.
I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.
I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.
The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.
I love to teach, I love to draw, I love animals. So I don't feel like I am relying on one thing to lead me in my career.
Right now in my career, it's like I'm having more fun than I've ever had, so it's kind of like, 'Man, I can't stop now.'
I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire.
I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.
The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, Remember, it's all about likeability.
I am so out of the loop. I am never honored. My career is hilarious to me. I am either under the radar or over the radar.
Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.
I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.
The reason I haven't had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break.
The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.
If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.
I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.
What is there about basketball that makes Larry Bird or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their playing careers are done?
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.
People make careers off of Instagram. So in that sense, it's really good, and you can put yourself out there and be open.
I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
My parents are both definitely supportive of my career.They are both big fans of rap. They are really what influenced me.
There's very few guys that play for one team their whole careers, nowadays, especially in the cap era it's a lot tougher.
I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.
As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: don't ever apologize.
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.
Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.
I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.
Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.
Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.
I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.
Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career Id like to emulate.
I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.