Career Counseling Quotes

Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills.

Our career mantra should be learn, relearn, repeat.

Miles Anthony Smith

The construct of retirement is dubious at best and a farce at worst. Expectations contrary to this are to be dashed.

Miles Anthony Smith

When my father was 17, he went to Montreal and found these submarine sandwich shops that were really successful, and weren't in Toronto [his home town]. So he went to my grandparents and said: "Look, you have to give me the seed money to open up one of these places. We'll make a fortune. They've got lines going round the block. There's nothing like that here." And my grandfather's response was: "Look, I'm sure these sandwiches are really good, and if we scraped the money together we could make a lot of money and your mother and I would be really proud of you, but you need to find something that has *magic* in it for you." It was off of that conversation that my father went to college on a music scholarship, started a film club and became one of the most successful directors of all time.

It is possible for you to realise your dream as a scientist, you must be a passionate learner and curious enough to seek this wonderful career path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Itis our ability to have an insight into people thatgives us the power to predict the future.

A person’s true nature, true self, cannot change with situations.

The work environment can bring out the 'best' or the 'worst' in you.

Business is ultimately about people and we can't be effective in business without having some insight into people.

Electricians that like good health avoid the known biologically toxic very high powered electrical utility jobs.

Your education is important because with only a few words you can show an employer the depth of your potential.

Matthew T. Cross

The focus should be on becoming a strong andinfluential personality – cultivate compelling communication skills, focus on building trust and learn how to expand and leverage your professional network.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson