#career

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex. ↗

— John Osborne

#beliefs #careers #doing #first #give

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

Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work. ↗

— Carlos Roche

#career #employment #hourly-wages #imagination #job

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

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#earning #life

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#career #difficult #i #i think #less

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#companionship #wonder

How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#poems #poetry #career

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. ↗

— Sally Ride

#better #career #i #interested #knew

My entire career, I've been a worker. ↗

— Andy Roddick

#career #entire #entire career #i #worker