Quotes About Career Change

Inspirational Career Change Quotes

• Robert Altman

  To play it safe is not to play. ~Robert Altman

• Hayden White

  "We aren't rooted in some authentic past. We can make out of ourselves something new, something not beholden to someone else’s idea of who we really are and where we had really come from. We could remake the meanings of our pasts, paradoxically, by seizing opportunities to create our futures.” ~Hayden White

• Benjamin R. Barber

  I went into the academic world under the illusion that it was a place where people cared passionately about ideas, about teaching, about discourse, about reflecting critically. What I discovered was a world of small-minded, partisan professionals, many of whom where there because they couldn't figure out what else to do. So I created a life inside the academy that reflected the life I wanted to lead. ~ Benjamin R. Barber, author of "Jihad Vs McWorld"

• Joseph Campbell

  A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation: "As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think." ~Joseph Campbell

• John Lennon

  The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that . . . Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing. ~John Lennon