Career Focus Quotes

Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.

I think 'Interscope' always puts the artist first, and they're focusing on these artists' development. I felt like that was a part of my career that I kind of needed to focus on after having come from the radio and getting exposure that way. I wanted to grow my brand and grow my fanbase, and they have proven to be the best fit for that.

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.

First and foremost, I'm a real estate person. And that's what I love the most.

I've always been the kid who's known what they wanted to do.

Every day, I'm working on my aviation career so that I don't have to think about working as an actor.

School was just kind of something where it was like, 'Um, I guess I should get my bachelor's.' My mind is always geared towards the practical.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!

I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things; I just didn't think about them.

I've lived with someone and probably will again, but I don't want children and I have known that since I was little. My parents thought I would change my mind. My boyfriends always think I'm going to change my mind, but it never happened. I fall in love with my businesses.

When you're superhot, you don't have the time to enjoy being superhot, because you're working your ass off. By the time we will actually have time to really go out and screw around, we won't be hot anymore.

A lot of relationships have ended for me in my 20s, because I knew that eventually those people would wanna settle down and have kids.

We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party.

My main thing is family first. This industry can get you so caught up that you're so busy chasing, wanting to be number one and wanting to be the richest that you lose sight of what life really is about.

Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

I knew I wanted to go to college and I wanted to study it acting, so I just looked for the best school that I could get into. Luckily, I had very supportive parents. I went to a conservatory that is basically drama school. You take one English class and one history class for four years but you don't take any other science or anything like that. It's strictly, from 7am until night, all acting. It's a lot. Some people find it too much, but for me I was preparing for a career and I never really looked back.

I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for.

From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.

I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.

If there's one thing that precedes my sleep, it's my work.