Quotes about careers




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"The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent."

Forster, Edward M. on careers    Share

"Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off?"

Manley, Joan on careers
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"The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years."

Mills, C. Wright on careers    Share

"People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them."

Passos, John Dos on careers
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"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."

Steinem, Gloria on careers    Share

"If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little."

Stewart, Jimmy on careers    Share

"Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid."

Wilde, Oscar on careers    Share

"Sometimes you have to do the work and hope the career materializes."

Lipsey, Michael on careers
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