Brenda Lee Quotes

If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.

I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed.

Those who talk about the sacrifices that they make throughout a career, I do not understand too much. For me, the real sacrifice would be getting up early in the morning to work.

I've never been that career conscious.

I trained my whole career to fight. I loved my job - I prioritised by job over my family, over my children.

I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't.

There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.

For me, the brightest years at IronPort were without a doubt the darkest years at home.

I gave up my whole life to my career.

I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.

I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.

My career is more important than girls.

I hope that the little sacrifices that I make in my life - being away from my daughter, my husband and I not seeing each other as much - I hope it does inspire young girls to realize they can be whatever they want in this life.

My career is my life and my passion. It's not a job, it's my life.

I felt that putting my all into the relationship would have taken me away from my career. And I couldn't do that then.

I want to work and continue to work - that's all I've ever done.

When I think of my career and why I leaned in, it comes down to basic survival.

It sounds crazy, but I'm so married to my work that I rarely meet new people.

I'm hungry. Always have been, my whole career.

I'm concentrating on my career, which is my top priority. The rest will follow eventually.

I missed a lot of family weddings and funerals because we were out on the road and had these big gigs, and you can't pull out of these gigs at the last minute because too many people are counting on it. It got to the point where I was consumed with that.

There is pressure from day one when you start your career.