Professional Motivation Quotes

People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

I want to work on cases that I feel the most passionate about.

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

I just don't want to do films for the sake of it.

Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

When I was a young child, professional aspiration was synonymous to me with the clatter of my mother's high-heeled boots as she went off to teach each 1970s weekday morning, carrying her graded blue books under her arm.

Best part of my job is fulfillment. When I see that, that we're creating value, that we're helping improve people's lives, and we benefit from it, so it's a system of mutual benefit. Our philosophy's working. That's what turns me on. That's what keeps me going.

I don't want to be like those guys that, two or three years into their contract, they do really good, and then they don't care.

Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job.

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

I'd be in the wrong job if I had to stand in front of the mirror and push myself to go to work every day.

For me, I never take a job thinking it's going to grab ratings or that it's even going to be a success. I don't. I just take the job because I love the character. Or I love the script. Maybe I love the director. But whatever I do, I never think about how it will do. That is not in my hands.

My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.

I'm the type who'd rather not work than work on something I'm not into. I've done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.

However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

The fact is that a woman who aspires to be chairman of the board - or a member of the House - does so for exactly the same reasons as any man. Basically, these are that she thinks she can do the job, and she wants to try.

I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.

Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data.

I produced 'Highway' and 'Chhichhore' for creative satisfaction.

As far as career goes, make sure you're in it for the right reasons - and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing.