Quotes About Career Change

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"

Ray Bradbury

You've got to jump off cliffs, all the time, and build your wings on the way down. ~Ray Bradbury

Geraldine Laybourne

I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left. ~Geraldine Laybourne, former Pres. of cable TV at ABC/Walt Disney

Karamozov Brothers

Remember, If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter how you get there. ~The Flying Karamozov Brothers

Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi

Buddha

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. ~Buddha

George Bernard Shaw

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw

Katherine Hepburn

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. ~Katherine Hepburn

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"

Greer Garson

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come. ~Greer Garson