12 pieces of careers advice

I don't like work — no man does — but I like what is in work — the chance to find yourself.
Joseph Conrad

It's never too late to be what you might have been.
George Elliot

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Vincent Van Gogh

In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Dr. Johnson

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung

Many people are so busy working that they forget to live.
Andreea Raicu

Unimportant work expands to fill the time in which frightening things should be done.
Paul Wood

Life isn't coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.
Boris Johnson

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody in the room.
Retired General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis