Professional Engagement Quotes

The candidate who knows the space and is really interested in a company rather than just applying for a job will be able to engage with everyone who's interviewing him or her with interesting questions at the right level.

You can take a position with the media, but don’t necessarily get in their face.

Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.

I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.

When I was first asked to be on 'Washington Week', I never prepared more for an appearance.

It sounds vain, but I could probably make a difference for almost everyone I ever met if I chose to involve myself with them either professionally or personally.

I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.

I like the work that I get to do.

The first time I went to the Planning Commission was when it was under KC Pant, a long time ago. Since then I have been back there many, many times to the point where the many people who seem to spend their lives sitting outside the various offices and even the patches of grime in the hallways and stairwells began to look familiar.

Why should someone be allowed to remain a voting member of the Academy if they are no longer active in the industry?

I have to have a creative role; otherwise, I simply wouldn't come into work.

I gotta be involved. I still write ads; I still run around and rally the creative people.

Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

The first paid show was in Los Angeles at an art opening and I was paid maybe, I don't know, twenty five bucks?

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.

It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.

In India, we now see many highly qualified professionals ready to work in the rural hinterland and in their own towns and cities to tackle development issues directly without depending much on the government.

I always welcome being part of something positive in WWE.

I've done everything. I've sung, done records, plays... It just so happened my first professional job was as a dancer. I've done the whole shebang, darling. But dancing was my first professional engagement in 1974. I got paid for it, so that was it, my vocation. But my parents weren't keen. They wanted me to be an accountant in Italy. Or a lawyer. They were furious. I had to run away. I had to leave the country.

Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.

For me to start working, projects have to catch my attention whether they are here (in the USA) or in Mexico. All I want is to be involved in projects that are interesting to me, projects that are a challenge wherever they may happen, in Spain, in China, or in Hollywood.

Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

Every now and then, they ask me to come in and improvise with Stanley Tucci for an afternoon. They fly me off to America, I improvise for an afternoon - it's not the hardest, most taxing job.