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Quotes about Career

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

Howard Thurman
 
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Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce.

Bill Gates : Microsoft Chairman
Bill Gates
Source: Written testimony of Bill Gates before Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives: http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=27
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During the Q&A periods after my speeches, it is the men who say to me, "Help me understand how I am going to balance my work and my family." Now, let me tell you why I believe they see it that way. Because when they look around the room, they see the women who are going to be in their lives, the choices they will have for a spouse. And they realize that these women are educated, ambitious, and have every intention of having careers of their own.

Being smart young men, they say to themselves, "I want to get married, have a family, and I understand my wife wants to work too. Do you, Vicki, know how to help us do that?" Because they're no longer looking at that prospective wife, saying, "Well this is wonderful, you're getting educated, but of course as soon as we get married, you're going to stay home and make babies."

Those days are long gone. But our corporations haven't caught up with it. Our law firms, our higher education system, and our medical institutions haven't figured out how this family policy is going to work. Men are tired of the 80- to 100-hour work week as well.

Vicki Donlan : Gaia Child
Vicki Donlan
Source: tompeters!: Cool Friends Interview with Vicki Donlan: http://www.tompeters.com/cool_friends/content.php?note=010092.php
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People who put aside a career for convenience get very little
of a career or convenience.

Laura Teresa Marquez
Source: Early Morning Conversation
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Our attitude has always been that if you hire good people and provide good wages and good jobs and more than that -- if you provide careers -- that good things will happen to your company. I think we can say that that has been proved by the quality of people that we have and how they have built our organization.

Jim Sinegal : Gaia Explorer
Jim Sinegal
Source: The Motley Fool: Costco's Competitive Secret: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2006/06/14/costcos-competitive-secret.aspx
Contributed by: ~C4Chaos. More quotes added by ~C4Chaos from all sources
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If something is important enough to you that you feel the urge to donate your money or time to it, I think it’s best to try to express that form of giving through your career, not just as something you do on the side.  If you enjoy your volunteering and charitable activities more than your career, it means your career is in serious need of an upgrade.  In my opinion your career should be your best outlet for giving.

Steve Pavlina : Gaia Explorer
Steve Pavlina
Source: Steve Pavlina: Contributing Through Your Career: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/07/contributing-through-your-career/
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More quotes about: passion, work, career, right livelihood, giving
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So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead.

Steve Rubel : Gaia Child
Steve Rubel
Source: Micro Persuasion: The Most Essential Career Skill You Need to Succeed: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/05/the_most_essent.html
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I adopted a begging posture that suggested genteel poverty combined with a certain affable nonchalance. People found this irresistible. They lavished money on me. Within days I exceeded ten dollars an hour. I began to save money and even, following Blue’s lead, tithed to the less fortunate. I became less pessimistic, thought less about how cruel the streets can be. I actually considered begging a legitimate career possibility.

Sol Luckman
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Before you wonder "Am I doing things right," ask "Am I doing the right things?"

unknown : Gaia Explorer
unknown
 
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What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky : Russian novelist
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
Source: The Idiot
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Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.

Thomas Jefferson : American statesman (3rd US President: 1801-09), wrote Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
 
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"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."

Gloria Steinem (1934 - )
 
Contributed by: Harmony. More quotes added by Harmony from all sources
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Self-acceptance does not come about in practice overnight. Neither does learning how to be patient with ourselves. But if we have any hope of finding a dream vocation or career, we must be on good terms with our hearts, so that we can discover what it is that our inner-man of the heart (to use St. Peter's term) wants to do. For this, patience and self-acceptance are required.

Marsha Sinetar : Gaia Child
Marsha Sinetar
Contributed by: ~C4Chaos. More quotes added by ~C4Chaos from this | all sources
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"People will pay me to feel the passion and energy I breathe into my career and creations."

Alan Cohen
Contributed by: Shelly. More quotes added by Shelly from this | all sources
More quotes about: money, power, wealth, lack
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It's never too late to be what you might have been.

George Elliot
 
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My addiction to reading (and my career as a librarian) grew out of a childhood that was rescued from despair by books, libraries, and librarians.

Nancy Pearl
Contributed by: Tsuya. More quotes added by Tsuya from this | all sources
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