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Actually, the books were never a planned career path. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed. -- Helen Fisher
I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path. -- Steve Buscemi
I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh. -- Paul Reubens
I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design. -- Trent Reznor
A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you. -- Tom Freston
I've met very few professional land surveyors who regret their career path, and even fewer, who are out of work, even during economic slowdowns. -- Mark Mason
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see. -- Wilma Mankiller
Can't decide which life or career path is right for you? Maybe you don't have to! In The Renaissance Soul, Margaret Lobenstine offers inspiration, advice, and practical tips for people with more than one burning passion. -- Laurence Boldt
So I just always drew. But never took that as a career path. I ended up in the computer business, and found myself as the vice president of sales and marketing for a computer accessories company. -- Dan Povenmire
Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths. -- Jonathan Stroud
As time goes on and you become more comfortable in your career path, and things are starting to make sense, and it's not just about work, you find that you're able to focus on other things and other people. -- George Clooney
I don't consider myself to be a media guy. It just happens to be that I've had opportunities in the media. I don't consider myself to be on a career path. I'm just a Christian and a Catholic priest. -- Jonathan Morris
An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case. -- Guy Kawasaki
My dad has an incredible passion for living life, and hes really, really funny, so he definitely encourages me to enjoy all aspects of life. Hes very proud of me and definitely encourages my career path, and we have a good time talking about work. -- Spencer Grammer
I remember all the kids picking their chosen career paths and I was thinking, If I'm an actor I can be an astronaut and a policeman and a firefighter. At the time I was so young that I actually thought actors were all of those things. -- Chris Lowell
Trust me, ... I know where my heart is and my heart's right here. I'm going to keep doing everything because I love to do it, but I will never sacrifice my time between the ropes. That's no shot to anybody. Everybody's got different career paths. This is mine. -- John Cena
I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My great obsession and basically the bane of my existence is caring probably too much about every word, but it's too late to change my career path. -- Emily Haines
Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over -- Seth Godin
The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny. -- Joan Jett
The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths, which people can experience as successful. You cannot restrict esteem to the fewer and fewer who will be climbing up the management ladder. You need to have the majority of your people feeling like winners. -- Judith M Bardwick
I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there's no career path that you can follow; there's very few people doing this that you can look to and pinpoint the mistakes. It hasn't changed since I was little. You have interests and follow them and strange things happen, organically or not. -- Don Hertzfeldt
I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that. -- Luke Wilson
No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life. -- Lucas Black
I think we live in an era without a predictable career path. Everybody's doing more, doing more at the same time, doing more faster. As such, individual projects can have wildly different developmental trajectories. -- Alex Timbers
I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race. -- Sami Gayle
I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte. -- Kaley Cuoco
When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path. -- Virginia Postrel
Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path. -- Cameron Russell
I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made a success of this career path.' You never feel like you've done your best work. You always think you could be better. -- Dominic Cooper
I try not to live in the future too much; that can make you crazy as an actor. There are so many people who are obsessed about their career path, like it's something which you can control, which fundamentally you can't. -- Romola Garai
Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff. -- Peter Garrett
When you are born rich, you have all these options. You can pursue a career path that you find interesting; there's no need or pressure to start working to get funds just for survival, which is something a lot of people have to struggle with. -- Jamie Johnson
My dad has an incredible passion for living life, and he's really, really funny, so he definitely encourages me to enjoy all aspects of life. He's very proud of me and definitely encourages my career path, and we have a good time talking about work. -- Spencer Grammer
I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career path, and I don't really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I'm just doing my own thing. -- Kendall Jenner
As America knows, Obama turned down the lucrative career path guaranteed to the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review to pursue the missions of service and teaching instead. The potential rewards for our country, now that that early choice has led him into the White House, are enormous. -- Frank Rich
I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of aerial photography in forestry in the 1950s, and we think he worked as a spy for the CIA during the Cold War, mapping Russian installations. -- Sarah Parcak
The biggest need that women have is more time. We all want more time in our lives. More time in the morning to get ready. More time in the evening to spend time with our families. All of these things - more time to move up that career path. It's about time. -- Renee Ellmers
Once I started down the path of co-founding Image Comics, and even co-publisher, it just seems a lot more like a career path that isn't that atypical for someone with a college degree. Whereas, someone who draws comic books as a freelancer and lives from job to job is a more unusual story. -- Jim Lee
Basically, we've grown up very focused on the institution. The institution tells me what to do. It tells me where to go. It tells me what my career path is, and then I, sort of, attach my own personal desires, my own personal interests. I think we're living in a time where we're going to have to change - to put people in the center. -- Michael Mullen
Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development. -- Auliq Ice
Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path. -- Alison Jackson
I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path. -- Eric Betzig
I've moved on with my life and I'm trying to find a path to re-establish my career. -- Paula Broadwell
I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing. -- Dave Franco
Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me. -- Vikram Chatwal
I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done. -- Famke Janssen
I'm learning that the times I felt the best about my life and career, I'm most like the water finding that path. -- Michael Lomenda
Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman. -- Casey Wilson
If you've chosen egocentricity for your career path than you've chosen to live with the illusion that your surroundings will serve you continuously -- Martin Dansky
I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path. -- Julianne Hough
Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character. -- Doseone
Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development! -- John C. Maxwell
Three-quarters of our sites - Kotaku, Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Lifehacker - are led by editors who built their careers within Gawker Media. That's the career path. -- Nick Denton
I played basketball. I went to school and played basketball and was trying to pursue that as a career path and kind of just fell into acting. -- Robbie Jones
It is possible for you to realise your dream as a scientist, you must be a passionate learner and curious enough to seek this wonderful career path. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome. -- James D. Watson
No one should ever despair because the entrance to his or her chosen career path is clogged. There is an ancient saying: "The persistent drip wears through stone. -- Kentetsu Takamori
I think we live in an era without a predictable career path. Everybodys doing more, doing more at the same time, doing more faster. As such, individual projects can have wildly different developmental trajectories. -- Alex Timbers

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