#career

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

— Jon Acuff

#dream #inspirational #dreams

The great break of my literary career was going to law school. ↗

— Scott Turow

#career #going #great #law #law school

Friendship is not by force but by choice. You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody. ↗

— Stella Oladiran

#christianity #dating #family #life #love

Get into Parliament, make tiresome speeches; you will have great offers; do not accept them at first, then do: then make great provision for yourself and family, and then call yourself an independent country gentleman. ↗

— Hans Stanley

#corruption #family

I've had a blessed career, and that has been acknowledged in many ways over the years. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#been #blessed #career #had #i

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#closely #enslavement #film #film star #occupation

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

#again #almost #been #career #failed

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed. ↗

— Criss Jami

#business #businesses #careers #college #decisions

I don't have any babies or ambition. I have it all! ↗

— Nan Little

#humor #parenthood #work-life-balance #life

Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#leadership #professionalism #leadership