#career

I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#great #had #i #no regrets #regrets

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#boils #brought #careers #demands #edge

An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married. ↗

— Billie Burke

#always #aside #audience #because #cannot

As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of. ↗

— George Clooney

#being #career #character #character actor #comfortable

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you. ↗

— David Ortiz

#books #career #end #get #going

It's not only who you know but who knows you. ↗

— Bianca Frazier

#career #life #life

I'm a heart surgeon, sure, but I'm just a mechanic. I go in and I fuck around and I fix things. Shit. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#fix #heart #love #mechanic #swearing

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

#cato #clove #glimmer #humor #katniss

Careers are not made in a family business, they are born – by patricide. Then they die from neglect, and avoid the tragedy of being put out of business. ↗

— Bauvard

#family #funny #humor #business

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#career #inspirational #self-help #women #business