Career quotations

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◆ You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There's this and there's that—if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is—I wouldn't give twopence for him'— here Caleb's mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers— ‘whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn't do well what he undertook to do.

- George Eliot99

◆ The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

- Timothy Ferriss99

◆ The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it. Nobody in any other game would be crazy enough to hire me. I wouldn't even make a good ditch-digger, I'd start tearing apart the sewer-system, trying to pick-axe and unearth all those chthonic symbols - pipes, valves, cloacal conduits... No, no. I'll have to be a slave in the paper-mines for all time.

- Margaret Atwood99

◆ I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine - anything from a mutated baddy in a comic book action thriller, to a detective. If anything, I'd like Gary Oldman's career: he's the perfect example of it. I've love to have a really broad sweep of characters - to be able to do something edgy, surprising and unfashionable.

- Benedict Cumberbatch99

◆ In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

- Les Claypool99

◆ If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I'd still do it--for fun and for free.

- Susan E. Isaacs99

◆ Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.

- Jon Acuff99

◆ I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

- Carl Sandburg99

◆ I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.

- Og Mandino99

◆ The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it's not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren't jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.

- Ethan Hawke99

◆ Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies.

- Thomas Merton99

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

- Katherine Whitehorn99