career quotes

Early in life,Duveen†noticed that Europe had plenty of art and America had plenty of money, and his entire astonishing career was the product of that simple observation.

- S(amuel) N(athaniel) Behrman
  Duveen, ch.1.  Joseph Duveen was a highly successful US art dealer.

A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.

- Mario Bellini
  In the NewYork Times, 25  Jun.

MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

- Douglas Coupland
Generation X,'The Sun IsYour Enemy'.

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
  Sybil, bk.1, ch.5.

Poetry is not a career, but a mug's game.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.

When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian; and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchillwhether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains, quite simply, a great man.

- Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton
  Political History, ch.2.

This was lifemy lifemy career, my brilliant career!

-of Bin Bin
My Brilliant Career, ch.5.

I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.

- Hugh Grant
  On his role in Restoration. In Screen International, 2 Sep.

I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier whotried to dohis dutyas Godgavehimthelight to see that duty.

- Douglas MacArthur
  Address to Congress after being relieved of his duty by President Truman,19  Apr.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Undershaft speaking of Stephen. Major Barbara, act 3.

His career was a text book example of the rise of a patrician in the snug embrace of the American establishment.

-Time
Of Dean Acheson. 25 Oct.

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

- Sue Townsend
  TheSecret Diary of Adrian MoleAged13 3/,'Monday, May 25th'. 4