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"Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to your profession, or that you should spend your life looking for the perfect career that is devoid of frustration. ... You should expect to be regularly frustrated in your work even though you may be in exactly the right vocation."
"Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made."
"The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too."
"When it comes to your career, you must always try and allow the positive aspects of your character to dictate what happens to you. Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage."
"Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little."
"There's never a surefire good career move except doing good work."
"Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot."
"I was never successful in a noteworthy way, no one wrote about me, and I didn't have recognition. I've met a lot of musicians along the way who thought I was good, and they knew that was important to me. Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me."
"I didn't really do many business ventures throughout my career because I would have an idea and then before I'd have a chance to make something of it, I'd see someone else do it. I just liked to watch my fellow artists become entrepreneurs and be people who can inspire the next generation. I did that more with my songs."
"During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder."
"Television isn't my career. Business is."
"There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man."
"To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career."
"That is definitely the biggest challenge, career and family, and learning how to balance."
"Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise."
"During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot"
"Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas of how an accountant walks, talks, smells - although not in the business community. For me it is a career that offers a lot of variety and challenges and I love it."
"What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play."
"My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself."
"Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me."
