Quotes About Career Change

Rumi

I've lived on the lip of insanity wanting to know reasons, knocking on the door, it opens. I've been knocking from the inside! ~Rumi

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

Arnold Toynbee

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. ~Arnold Toynbee

Gerald Levin

I want my identity back. I don't want to be known as the CEO of AOL Time Warner . . . I'm my own person. I have strong moral convictions. I'm not just a suit. I want poetry back in my life. ~Gerald Levin

Abraham Lincoln

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. ~Abraham Lincoln

Eleanor Roosevelt

We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Thomas Szasz

The self is not something that one finds. It's something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz

Rumi

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. ~Rumi

Dean Kamen

Why change the world? To me that's what life is about. If you don't do that, you might as well hybernate and sleep. If everyone thinks what you do is "normal" . . . it probably is. Why do that? Do something else! ~ Dean Kamen, Inventor of "Segway"

Richard Pinhas

"Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life." ~Richard Pinhas