Professional Career Quotes

When I thought my professional career was over, it hadn't even started yet.

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

The two greatest role models in my professional career were Walt Disney and Dr. Deming. Dr. Deming was the Father of Total Quality Management and the person who redefined quality for the entire world.

I learn from everyone by observing traits that makes them successful and traits that bring them down, and try to incorporate only the best traits into my professional career.

I don't think life owes me anything and the business doesn't owe me anything. The only way to approach it is by working hard and loving what you do. If you do that and have faith, maybe you will get lucky. I mean that sincerely and specifically. I truly believe that no professional career in the arts is capable without a healthy dose of luck.

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.

I spent more than 20 years of my professional career researching and developing renewable energy sources.

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career.

One of the reasons for The Walt Disney Company's long- term success is really the first of Dr. Deming's famous points, "create constancy of purpose." In his professional career, Walt's major passion was to provide the finest in family entertainment. For the most part, for nearly a century, the Company has stayed true to that legacy, and has set the standard for the entire entertainment industry.

Concrete examples of successful women and their stories of achievement are the best inspiration and [means of] empowerment for other women to seek the heights in their professional career and take a leading role in society.

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I've been fighting for more than 24 years and as I continue my ascendant career, I want to be true to myself. I want to try to be the best role model I can be for kids who might look into boxing as a sport and a professional career. I have and will always be a proud Puerto Rican. I have always been and always will be a proud gay man.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

I started my professional career before the blogosphere existed in any sort of meaningful way. I think that my approach as a writer was certainly freer because I wasn't worried, I didn't have commenters on me right from the get-go. I didn't have this instant-reaction culture that young writers have to deal with now. I had different things - I was listed in the phone book and people would look me up and call me and yell at me, but that was about as bad as it got.

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort. It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. The experiences of the nursery, the school, the University, and of professional careers, are a chain of proofs to the contrary.

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. And I should be a coward if I did not state my theoretical views in public.

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

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.

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

If you can dream it, you can make it so.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.