#careers

It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a by-product, that you emerge as a desired commodity for industry. ↗

— Damon Horowitz

#education #humanities #industry #intellect #passion

Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested. ↗

— David Steinberg

#beneficial #careers #going #got #help

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#men

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. ↗

— Richard Branson

#assets #bands #brand #careers #combination

I did a film in which Andy Garcia and Michael Keaton both played the leads, 'Desperate Measures,' and interestingly enough it was their biggest payday. The film didn't do well, and it kind of marked their careers. They've done less since. It all changed. ↗

— Brian Cox

#biggest #both #careers #changed #desperate

There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold. ↗

— Matt Damon

#anything #appear #careers #done #famous

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it. ↗

— Dizzy Dean

#careers #cubs #giants #help #just

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'. ↗

— Debra Winger

#big #big picture #careers #good #i

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#classic #conductor #conductors #eliminates #him

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers. ↗

— John Hewson

#both #careers #either #establish #had