Career Awareness Quotes

Every football player knows when his time is up.

Sometimes in your career, you are at the right place at the right moment. But you have to be aware that eventually you may no longer be the right person for that position. So build your succession and foster for it while you are still at the peak of you career.

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.

My concerns have always been to do the best job I can. But I am conscious that I'm a black manager and I am conscious that there is a profile that goes with that.

I didn't associate playing tennis with making a living until I was maybe 18 or 19.

The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.

I spent a lot of time in Japan. To me, I felt like my career was kind of marooned out there. I didn't realize the extent of the reach that New Japan had in America and around the world.

I was not one of those children hanging on Ma's coat-tails following her round sets. I'd go to the theatre after school if she was working, but I didn't even know what an agent was.

I grew up knowing the pros and cons of the business and knowing what comes with pursuing what you love in terms of being in the public eye. I also grew up among people that were considered celebrities and people that people admired.

I was very aware that my path into the industry would probably be as an actress and not in production, that I could learn a lot that way. And I did.

You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.

There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like, 'I can do this with my life' kind of thing. And then, there are the jobs that maybe bring a certain level of awareness about you as an actor, where other people feel like they can hire you.

Growing up in the inner city, you might not see a lot of different career paths and different jobs.

My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career.

I don't think I ever saw acting as an actual career until late.

Growing up, I'd never heard of any female producers or songwriters. I didn't know you could be a girl and produce, which is terrible.