Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Napoleon HillI’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.
Gordon RamsayA man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel JohnsonI’m a workin‘ girl.
Dolly PartonI believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard P. FeynmanThroughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.
Colin PowellThe study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available.
Noam ChomskyThe quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
Bill GatesIf my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.
Henny YoungmanWork gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Stephen HawkingNothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.
Virat KohliTo study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
William JamesIf someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.
Taylor SwiftI’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.
Dolly PartonWhy should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?
John F. KennedyWould I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.
Gordon RamsayFor somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.
Madeleine AlbrightCosmology is a rapidly advancing field.
Stephen HawkingLanguage is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
Noam ChomskyWe’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.
Richard P. FeynmanTouch a scientist and you touch a child.
Ray BradburyI have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘
Joe BidenI’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.
Matthew McConaugheyFew professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‚studies‘ courses.
Thomas SowellThe best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
George EliotWhen I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.
Lana Del ReyBut I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.
Stephen KingActing is the perfect idiot’s profession.
Katharine HepburnIt’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
Paul AusterIn the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
J. Robert OppenheimerThe pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
Benjamin DisraeliClimbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamEverything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.
George LucasI’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.
Jimmy CarterPeople have asked me, ‚What would you have done if you hadn’t gone into the Army?‘ I’d say I’d probably be a bus driver. I don’t know.
Colin PowellIt was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and was very unhappy. I had pitched an idea for a book some six months earlier, and the book packager, Joost Elffers, wanted me to write up a treatment for it.
Robert GreeneIf I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.
Clint EastwoodI always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.
Kendrick LamarYou know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.
Anthony BourdainI knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.
Conor McGregorMost people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert EinsteinI could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.
Anthony BourdainI’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.
Robert GreeneAs a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don’t get that.
Jerry SeinfeldIf I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.
Jim CarreyMy only scheme was to be a rapper.
EminemMy publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.
Jordan PetersonAs scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.
Stephen HawkingWe have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.
Narendra ModiAny man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.
Harry S. TrumanI love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.
Beyonce KnowlesI booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.
Frank OceanMy mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.
Kamala HarrisMan lives for science as well as bread.
William JamesIt’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.
Jordan PetersonIn any profession it gets to be a grind.
Denzel WashingtonIt was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.
Jane GoodallFor my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.
Lando Norris