“If you ever decide on a career change, I’d avoid motivational speaking.”

Source: Magic Breaks

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "If you ever decide on a career change, I’d avoid motivational speaking." by Ilona Andrews?
Ilona Andrews photo
Ilona Andrews 428
American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Related quotes

“I’d made a vow when I got over here never to speak to anyone I’d ever known before.”

Elaine Dundy (1921–2008) American journalist, actress

Part One, One
The Dud Avocado (1958)
Context: I’d made a vow when I got over here never to speak to anyone I’d ever known before. Yet here we were, two Americans who hadn’t really seen each other for years; here was someone from "home” who knew me when, if you like, and, instead of shambling back into the bushes like a startled rhino, I was absolutely thrilled at the whole idea.
"I like it here, don’t you?” said Larry, indicating the café with a turn of his head.
I had to admit I’d never been there before.
He smiled quizzically. "You should come more often,” he said. "It’s practically the only nontourist trap to survive on the Left Bank. It’s real” he added.
Real, I thought … whatever that meant.

Jasper Fforde photo
James McCosh photo
William Blake photo

“Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 37

“You cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change!”

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 83

Charles Stross photo

“You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I’d never have time to do anything else.”

Source: Glasshouse (2006), Chapter 15, “Recovery” (p. 255)

Robert T. Kiyosaki photo

“I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.”

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Source: Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Chris Rea photo

“On his refusal of a set for MTV Unplugged: It’s one of the biggest career mistakes I’ve ever made. I’d be so much more wealthy, because of America. I was offered one of the first ones. But I saw Eric Clapton on it, and it reminded me of Pebble Mill At One.”

Chris Rea (1951) English singer-songwriter

I thought, ‘Oh my God, I don’t want anything to do with this’. Because he’s like God to me. [...] So I turned it down. I should have had an older brother who said, ‘Fucking do it’.
2015

Aleksandr Vasilevsky photo

“I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work in some remote corner of Russia after the war. I could not suppose that my country would change, and I would.”

Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1895–1977) Soviet military commander

Quoted in "The matter of my whole life" - by Marshal A.M. Vasilevsky - Moscow, Politizdat, 1978.

Related topics