Richard McCabe Quotes

After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.

I did some acting in high school and then a little more in college, and it just was the thing that I felt that I wanted to do more than anything else. And then I was fortunate enough to audition for and get into Yale Drama School right after college, and I spent three years there.

I was a welder for about three or four months, and I was lucky enough to get out of it because there was a guy who wanted to support me and pay for my racing.

I left school, and I went to work in a computer company. I was in my late teens.

After leaving school, I worked as an electrician before becoming an actor.

I think we do need better training programs, we do need a way to get people from careers that are dead-end into new careers.

This idea you're going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous.

The weird thing about drama school is that you train for three years for one thing, and then, more often than not, it's something that you haven't trained for that you end up doing.

I never one time mentioned anything to any coach about retirement or joining the CIA or anything like that.

I would like to go back to the private sector at some point.

What we want is for our young people to be skilled.

I moved seven times the first seven years I coached.

When you blink, you're on the back end of your career.

I actually moved from engineering to acting. I think what's important is how talented and passionate you are.

I have commissioners who had very good jobs, making good salaries, and gave up something to work for the state.

To be honest, I have no idea what happens after my career.

Welfare reform isn't easy.

I was an electrician, and now I'm in 'Electric Dreams.' It's almost bizarre.

I was working in a day job in marketing but I had my sights on doing an open-mic night.

My career has totally changed. Burnley helped me get to where I am, and I'll never forget that.

As I've traveled the country, we visit tech incubators all the time where women are going into their second or third act in their career and learning how to be software programmers, or how to work at startup companies, and learning a completely different skill set. I think it's never too late.

When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.

If I'd had more courage, I would've pursued a less commercial path. Maybe I would've gone into musical theater.

I didn't always have research jobs.

I was a dancer for about 20 years. It didn't really help me transition into music.