All Quotes By Tag: Career
“Knowing how to write the new rulebook for yourcareer gives you a competitive advantagethat will last long into the future.”
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“You can’t future proof your role, but you can future proof your career”
“Now I realize that I want Leo to be like my father. I don’t just want him to be happy, but also to make everyone around him happier. To not only be creative, but to make everyone around him more creative. To not only be successful, but to make everyone around him more successful. I don’t just want him to be a bright light; I want him to make others shine brighter as well.”
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“When Opportunity meets Preparation she greets her with open arms and they both say in unison, “Let’s do this!”
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“Champions know the emotions you want to feel and help you feel them by remaining genuine to a noble intention.”
“How does one know you’ve “made it”?You no longer feel like you have anything to prove to anyone. You have no regrets or resentments from the past, anger that you’re working from. No people you want revenge on or songs you want to sing in order to finally speak your mind. Instead, you work from a place of wanting to do the work only, without any attachment to the outcome.”
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“Very well then! I’ll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else.A man had a choice, after all. He devoted his life to his work or to his wife and children and home. It could not be combined; not in this day and age. In this insane world where God was second to income and goodness to wealth.”
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“God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our hearts for it because we cannot afford to spend our time at it. (“Mad House”)”
“I’m either going to be a writer or a bum.”
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“Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.”
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“Some fail because after they choose the direction for their careers, they spend too much time second-guessing their decision.”
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“Yet for quixotic reasons–namely, that I enjoyed writing obits–I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively about the city’s dead. For even less money. It was a strange and inexplicable career move.”
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“That thing you thought you’d doYou start to think you can’t;You always say tomorrow,But you haven’t got a plan.Everyone’s asking questions,And all you do is dodge.That career that you’d imaginedWas only a mirage.The older that you get,The smaller that you feel;You forget what’s only in your head,And what is really real.Sometimes people make it;They become who they meant to be.But most of the time,Dreamers only dream.”
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“So find your own combination of things to learn and see and be passionate about. Learn from everyone but be your own guidance, and you will find a red-hot feeling in your chest each night, eager for the possibilities of a new day. No one knows your heart as well as you do.”
“The honor of your presentation, execution, experience, and growth will do much more for you and your career over false claims that have no substance yet.”
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