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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder. -- Sheryl Sandberg
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them. -- John Dos Passos
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. -- George S. Patton
Anybody can have a life. Careers are hard to come by. -- Jay Leno
Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are. -- Donald Glover
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work. -- Denis Waitley
Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry. -- Jason Mraz
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet. -- Robert H. Schuller
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end. -- Edward Albee
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines. -- Gary Sinise
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. -- Confucius
Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s. -- Kim Wilde
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. -- Martin Amis
Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially. -- John Zimmerman
Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale. -- Trinny Woodall
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. -- Lou Holtz
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running. -- Gary Sinise
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week. -- Robert Frost
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. -- Gloria Steinem
Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. -- Orison Swett Marden
For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are. -- Paul Clitheroe
Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some... -- Brendan Fraser
Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that. -- Steven Gerrard
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. -- Jane Fonda
No, scratch the word career. Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. -- Emily Giffin
No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. -- Emily Giffin
Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them. -- Paul McGann
Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do. -- Brian Tracy
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. -- Brian Tracy
Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career. -- Dale Carnegie
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world. -- Philip Zimbardo
When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making. -- William Shatner
I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly. -- Suzanne Collins
The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting. -- Sheryl Sandberg
I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind. -- Gore Vidal
You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it's easy. I work long hours. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore. -- Lady Gaga
You are going to be measured anyway by some means, fair or foul. Usually the one doing the measuring has nothing specific in mind; so he does it by the seat of his pants. Careers are destroyed in this manner. -- Phil Crosby
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. -- Michael Jordan
America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by their own hands. To overpower its tender spirits makes America feel tough. Careers are generally short. -- Martin Amis
No scratch the word "career". Careers are people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. This is merely a job. I can take or leave this place. I start to imagine quitting and following my yet-to-be-determined passion. -- Emily Giffin
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Every woman I know, particularly the senior ones, has been called too aggressive at work. We know in gender blind studies that men are more aggressive in their offices than women. We know that. Yet we're busy telling all the women that they're too aggressive. That's the issue. -- Sheryl Sandberg
I'd worked on leprosy and malaria in India [at the World Bank] and asked myself the question: Why do we let 2 million children die every year around the world for not having clean water? Because they're faceless and nameless. So, for me, Facebook looked like it was going to solve the problem of the invisible victim. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all. -- Joyce Brothers
We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am. -- Thomas Keller
I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy. -- Marilyn Manson
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. -- Og Mandino
Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives. -- Joe Baca
I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking. -- Sylvester Stallone
To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms. -- Christina Aguilera
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. -- Gary Ryan Blair
Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible. -- Chris Cannon
You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them. -- Action Bronson
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. -- Richard Branson
I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner. -- Emma Stone
It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers. -- Gordon Moore
I've worked with people at different stages of their careers and different success levels, and one thing I've noticed about the guys at the top is they're so relaxed and calm - it's about not having anything to prove except doing good work. -- Shawn Roberts
I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were. -- Larry Ellison
When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you. -- Trent Reznor
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Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir. -- Marvin Sapp
The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids. -- Michael Ian Black
Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything going on around him and soaking it in. He paid particular attention to older teammates on his Chicago Cubs squad, hoping to emulate habits that had allowed those veterans to extend their careers. -- Don Yaeger
I've struggled a lot to get where I am. I initially got rejected by every producer. But no complaints. I enjoyed each and every moment of the struggle. My first break came in 1997 from Krishna Vamsi and then Puri Jagannadh, who is my closest friend. I owe everything I am to him. Our careers have evolved simultaneously. -- Ravi Teja
I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. -- Trent Reznor
I was the first in my family to go to college, and I waitressed all the way through, using my earnings to pay for a bachelor's degree first and then a master's. I resented classmates who didn't have to work real jobs, the ones who had the luxury of taking unpaid internships that would eventually position them for high-paying careers. -- Ali Liebegott
Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun! -- Wayne Gretzky
In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted. -- Zac Efron
It's always marketeers building their own careers. -- Russell Simmons
People don't need careers. People should just exist. -- Elizabeth Olsen
We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced. -- Thomas Jefferson
Actors' careers are random with a capital "R." -- Cillian Murphy
Most music careers slowly but surely go down. -- Malik Bendjelloul
If the careers want me, let them find me. -- Suzanne Collins
This is a great time in our lives and careers. -- Nick Lachey
You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different. -- Andy Murray
Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit. -- Lois Wyse
Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers. -- Christine Gregoire
Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made. -- Seth Godin
The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. -- Chris Hedges
I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers. -- Clive Owen
Wrestlers are all pretty busted-up by the ends of their careers. -- Mickey Rourke
Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. -- Keith Ferrazzi
Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead. -- Jenna Dewan
Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't. -- Peter Asher
I often think about the class differences involved in "jobs" vs. "careers." -- Bill Walsh
Comics don't usually have very long careers, and I'm 22 years into this. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age. -- Julia Cameron
I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers. -- Jesse Spencer
Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers -- Kurt Vonnegut
Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers. -- Martin Rees
Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend. -- Tracey Emin
Every artist usually has one or two songs that really define their careers. -- Gary Wright
I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers. -- John Lasseter
My parents have always done what they've loved, and they've had many different careers. -- Leona Lewis
God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers. -- Donald Miller
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers. -- Pat Riley
I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare. -- Joely Fisher
Great careers are getting easier to find and audition for, but harder to keep. -- Tucker Max
In order to promote your own career, you need to promote the careers of others. -- Gerald C. Meyers
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one. -- Jon Krakauer
Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically. -- Phil Crosby
Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. -- Ron Silver
Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man. -- Tennessee Williams
I'm sure it's there traced along my career. I'm sure it is in most actresses' careers. -- Natalie Dormer
I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive. -- Barry Mann
We want to make sure our athletes have a future once their athletics careers are over. -- Alberto Juantorena
I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives. -- Catherine Hardwicke
Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered. -- Danica McKellar
People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers. -- Andrew Scott
At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military. -- Wally Schirra
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It's hard not to follow other careers of NFL quarterbacks in the 24/7 news-at-your-fingertips society we live in. -- Andrew Luck
There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management. -- Amanda Marshall
I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early. -- Wayne Knight
You know, a lot of girls go out with me just to further their careers...damn anthropologists. -- Emo Philips

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