Quotes about "Work & Career"

Balance takes work. Lots of it. There is no endpoint in balance, no goal, no finalization. Balance requires practice, patience, and - most importantly - movement. We often get stuck in our ways and form habits based on our fears and driven by our insecurities. ”

The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course. ”

I know people seek me out to be their mentor, and I've chosen a few people I'm really invested in and nurturing their career and their aesthetic and just their person. ”

I'm sad about my theatre career, but I've also fallen a bit in love with TV! ”

Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer. ”

Donald Trump begins his political career in birtherism. That idea is connected to a very, very old notion that African-Americans are not citizens. ”

My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK. ”

I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can. ”

I'd always been fascinated by archaeology; it was my original career plan as a kid. ”

I thought I wanted to be a machinist. I thought that was the most glamorous job in the world. ”