The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
In the course of heir careers in the American schools of today, most students take hundreds, if not thousands, of tests. They develop skill to a highly calibrated degree in an exercise that will essentially become useless immediately after their last day in school.
—Howard Gardner (b.1943) American Cognitive Psychologist
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
—David Ogilvy (1911–99) British-American Advertising Executive
A good manager is a man who isn’t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don’t worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you’ll float to greatness on their achievements.
—H. S. M. Burns (1900–71) American Businessman
The first essential in a boy’s career is to find out what he’s fitted for, what he’s most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
—Charles M. Schwab (1862–1939) American Businessperson
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
Don’t worry if your job is small and your rewards few. Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.
—Unknown
An artist’s career always begins tomorrow.
—James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) American Painter, Etcher
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish Novelist
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
—Charles Cooley (1864–1929) American Sociologist
He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
The word career is a divisive word. It’s a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
—Grace Paley (1922–2007) American Short-Story Writer, Political Activist
Analyzing what you haven’t got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
—Grace Moore (1898–1947) American Operatic Soprano
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet
Work to become, not to acquire.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
—Bobby Unser (1934–2021) American Automobile Racer
Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
—Barack Obama (b.1961) American Head of State, Academic, Politician, Author
He believes that marriage and a career don’t mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
—Indian Proverb
Professionals are people who can do their job when they don’t feel like it. Amateurs are people who can’t do their job when they do feel like it.
—Anonymous
For many people a job is more than an income—it’s an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.
—Paul Clitheroe (b.1955) Australian Financial Analyst
My gift is that I’m not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It’s about health and being in good shape.
—Shirley MacLaine (b.1934) American Actress, Dancer, Activist
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
The best career advice to give to the young is “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.”
—Katharine Whitehorn (1928–2021) English Journalist, Writer, Columnist
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.
—James Baldwin (1924–87) American Novelist, Social Critic
No decent career was ever founded on a public.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American Novelist
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
—C. Wright Mills (1916–62) American Sociologist, Academic
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
A career is born in public – talent in privacy.
—Marilyn Monroe (1926–62) American Actor, Model, Singer
Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.
—John Eliot (b.1971) American Psychologist, Academic
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