Career Paths Quotes

“Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the comment that not only are universities a 'cathedral' for worship of knowledge, they are also 'sheltered workshops' for the socially challenged.”
― Tony Attwood, The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome

“Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she herself might do. September expected that destinies, which is how she thought of professions, simply landed upon one like a crown, and ever after no one questioned or fretted over it, being sure of one’s own use in the world. It was only that somehow her crown had not yet appeared. She did hope it would hurry up.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

“Still, my argument was that if she was going to work for the next thirty years, what difference does going "back" four years really make? If the other path made her happier and offered her a chance to learn new skills, that meant she was actually moving forward.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“It is possible for you to realise your dream as a scientist, you must be a passionate learner and curious enough to seek this wonderful career path.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“We are all entitled to our own share of mistakes and learning experiences in life. No one should take them away from us. Not even our parents.”
― Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes

“It's a jungle gym, not a ladder.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“Heaven knows where I'll end up - it's a safe bet I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“People have a much greater chance of finding something they’ll enjoy doing and making those greatest contributions when they trust themselves and are free to make their own life choices (are not marionettes in the hands of their parents).”
― Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes

“That’s not our role here, provide our parents with a “success story” to share at gatherings.

Our role here is to contribute the best we can to the society. Use our talents and make sure we add the greatest value possible to other people’s lives.”
― Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes

“When my father was 17, he went to Montreal and found these submarine sandwich shops that were really successful, and weren't in Toronto [his home town]. So he went to my grandparents and said: "Look, you have to give me the seed money to open up one of these places. We'll make a fortune. They've got lines going round the block. There's nothing like that here." And my grandfather's response was: "Look, I'm sure these sandwiches are really good, and if we scraped the money together we could make a lot of money and your mother and I would be really proud of you, but you need to find something that has *magic* in it for you."

It was off of that conversation that my father went to college on a music scholarship, started a film club and became one of the most successful directors of all time.”
― Jason Reitman

“An approach, according to which children should fulfil their parents’ dreams/ do everything in order to make their parents happy/ provide their parents with a peace of mind, or whatever they want for themselves - because they owe it to them for all those years in which their parents took care of them - is utterly selfish.”
― Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes

“Being in charge of your work life doesn't mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving, continuing on your own path, even when you feel shaky and uncertain.”
― Charlotte Beers, I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work

“The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do this, so you will have to be vigilant. When evaluators give you an assessment, they are just guessing at who you are; they certainly are not the ones who know your potential. They can rate you and influence you, but they don't get to define you. That's your most honorable assignment: to define, every day through the way you deliver your work, the scope and nature of your inherent abilities.”
― Charlotte Beers, I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work

“Choose to live life.
Choose your own career paths.
Choose your own destiny.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“I am certain that Eric will get the job. His career path is very straight, like that of an arrow to its target. If I were to draw my path out, it would look like a gas particle flying around in space.”
― Weike Wang, Chemistry

“This book is the new model. It’s my philosophy on work. Everything I’ve learned to avoid and everything I try to do right each day. It was developed through error, experiment, and from the stories of many others. As a result, I have a career that serves my life, my values, my goals, and my family. One that I am prepared to change as I, the economy, and the world change. With this new model, you can get the same result. A career that serves your life, values, goals, and family.”
― Evan Thomsen, Don’t Chase The Dream Job, Build It: The unconventional guide to inventing your career and getting any job you want

“My only career goal is to be an halloween icon.”
― Nuno Roque

“Our parents are not the only people on this planet, and we should not base our life choices on what they want (what will bring them a peace of mind, satisfaction, and give them a reason to brag), but we should make those choices keeping in mind that there are upwards of 7,5 billion people in this world, and that we should use our talents and energy trying to improve the lives of as many of them as possible.”
― Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes

“It’s safer/ easier to follow the script and complain how broken some things are in that script, than to attempt to change those things.”
― Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes

“A computer only specializing in counting, will forever stay a calculator - wasting its potential of becoming the complex system incorporating it.”
― Milena Chmielik

“Mütter, die nicht aus Überzeugung zuhause geblieben sind, üben oft den größten Druck auf die anderen Mütter aus. Sie sind der eigentliche Treiber der Rabenmütter-Diskussion, weil sie ihr Lebensmuster mit Zähnen und Klauen verteidigen. Das ist bei Frauen viel schlimmer als bei Männern. Frauen sind da ihre größten Feindinnen. Und sie springen am härtesten mit denen um, die das verwirklichen, was ihnen verwehrt geblieben ist, also Karrier zu machen. Sie sind nicht solidarisch.
Bei Frauen, die gern zuhause bleiben, weil es ihr Ding ist, ist das ganz anders. Die sind entspannt, die leben ihr Leben. (Regine Stachelhaus, S. 90)”
― Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

“Good mentors are essential for a successful career.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“They know a lot, but they don’t know everything, and they can’t advise you on anything.

They can only tell you what they believe worked / or didn’t work for them.”
― Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes

“You can build your business life where you are working with people you want to work with. Then it becomes a pleasure, and then you can do better.”
― Andy Morgan, The Muscle & Strength Pyramid - Training

“can you think of anyone whose work or life you really covet, who you think is really amazing, dead or alive, who took the straight path they were meant to take?”
― Golriz Ghahraman, Know Your Place

“In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed is associated with technology, tools, trots and tough trackers. So in my opinion thrive with tactful talent.”
― Gagandeep Kaushal

“Trying to be an actor is like playing the lottery. You may hit a few times with moderate success, but a major win can prove to be life altering.”
― Germany Kent

“Many people don’t make the conscious decision to navigate their career options and the opportunities to run parallel careers. Don’t be the many people. Take charge of your power to consciously choose a career path, or paths, that fits with the life you are creating for yourself.”
― Katherine Ann Byam, Do What Matters: The Purpose Driven Career Transition Guide: Infusing the principles of sustainability and purpose into any career and transition.

“Soon my role here will be a line in the horizon and then will be beyond the horizon of memory. No one, in time, will remember the time I put in here. I will be an echo which carries on in some, until it is so silent that it is unrecognizable. I am at peace with this. I am a reverberation, until I am not. There was a time when I was not here, knowing the things that I know, and there will be a time beyond the knowing of me.”
― Eric Overby, Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings

“Saying yes to everything seems like the fast lane to career success until it quietly becomes the fastest way to lose your edge.”
― Timsux Wales