I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.
EminemThe consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Blaise PascalWe have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl SaganIf someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.
Taylor SwiftNo man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Napoleon HillWhere ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai LamaThroughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.
EminemEntire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
PlatoFacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous HuxleyWhen you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Warren BuffettI think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.
Beyonce KnowlesActing is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
Denzel WashingtonThe greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. KennedyPeople think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
J. ColeIt 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 GreeneThe day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.
Sunil ChhetriI think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.
Lady GagaThe ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. KennedyI say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William ShakespeareI was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
Paulo CoelhoThe first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin DisraeliHuman beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
Alice WalkerI 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 LamarThe best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
George EliotThe career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao TzuA career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.
Marilyn MonroeMy whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.
DJ KhaledAs 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 SeinfeldSometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.
Haruki MurakamiI happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
Elvis PresleyI like to work.
Abby Lee MillerAdmiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinIf I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.
Abby Lee MillerDogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand RussellWork gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Stephen HawkingI 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 OceanI feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.
Kevin HartI guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.
Lady GagaThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac AsimovI left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.
Lando NorrisIgnorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William ShakespeareIgnorance, the root and stem of all evil.
PlatoI was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.
George H. W. BushAll I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.
Will RogersThe truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston ChurchillTrue friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David ThoreauI’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.
Dolly PartonPeople always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill GatesThe idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.
Robert KiyosakiI think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George EliotIf I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.
Clint EastwoodIn my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.
Stephen HawkingI’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.
Taylor SwiftAll you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark TwainIt is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
Richard P. FeynmanActing is the perfect idiot’s profession.
Katharine HepburnI did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.
Madeleine AlbrightMy shows are not narratives.
Brian EnoWar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell