Quotes about "Work & Career"

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills. ”

My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry. ”

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle? ”

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence. ”

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career. ”

I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling. ”

When you see in this country and every other part of the world the huge pay disparity - in Hollywood, in every profession in the U.K., globally - and you see what is happening to women in every country socially and culturally, you can't not be a feminist. ”

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart. ”

I hope my pieces have an authenticity to them, but my job is to filter the world and tell a story, not to define and recreate exactly what's going on. ”

I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow. ”