Career advice

A man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance. So if you now number yourself among the disenchanted, then you have no choice but to accept things as they are, or to seriously seek something else. But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living And there’s the crux. Is it worth giving up what I have to look for something better? I don’t know—is it? Who can make that decision but you? But even by DECIDING TO LOOK, you go a long way toward making the choice.
Hunter S. Thompson, aged 20

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Abraham Maslow

Providence seldom sends any into the world with an inclination to attempt great things, who have not abilities, likewise, to perform them.
Dr. Johnson

Choose a job that you love, and you will never work a day in your life.
Confucius

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James

Things can be done. The people in life who get them done are the ones who know that, and the ones who don't are the rest.
Tony Hawks

All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honoré de Balzac

Our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.
Katharine Whitehorn

Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Goethe

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
Steve Jobs

‎Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.
William Durant

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
Gerald Brenan

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Gerald Brenan

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot