Quotes About Career Planning

#1. I admit, I'm suspicious of any career planning that involves chasing the next 'big thing,' just because it's so hard to predict what the next big thing is going to be a couple of years - or even six months - out.

Carrie Vaughn

#2. Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

Venus Williams

#3. Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.

Nancy Gibbs

#4. Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really.

Christian Bale

#5. Professional loyalty now flows "horizontally" to and from your network rather than "vertically" to your boss, as Dan Pink has noted.

Reid Hoffman

#6. My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good improvisational skills.

Justin Kan

#7. I'm not planning a career change - not unless they need someone who constantly falls on the ice and is out of breath all the time.

Scott Wolf

#8. I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#9. Throwing your heart into something is great, but when any one thing becomes all that you stand for, you're vulnerable to an identity crisis when you pivot to a Plan B.

Reid Hoffman

#10. Your career is your business.

Auliq Ice

#11. If you don't have the right support form the right people you are always going to be the best choice and not the preferred choice.

Richmond Akhigbe

#12. In regards to planning your career, you need to treat it (your career) just like a business.

Auliq Ice

#13. When you approach every job enthusiastically in a spirit of friendly cooperation, you distinguish yourself from the vast majority of people.

Napoleon Hill

#14. Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?" asked Scrimgeour.
"No, I'm not," retorted Hermione. "I'm hoping to do some good in the world!

J.K. Rowling

#15. Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

Sam Abell

#16. In discovery- driven planning, learning is the essential unit of progress. A course correction isn't equivalent to failure, it's an opportunity to re-calibrate so you can move more quickly up the learning curve.

Whitney Johnson

#17. Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

Albert Bandura

#18. It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job. I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what this does for me.

Kristen Stewart

#19. This may sound a little harsh, but I don't care about my career. Really, I don't like actors who are always planning what they're going to do next or always worrying about doing something that will go against the image they've created. To me, that's almost like an attack of narcissism.

Antonio Banderas

#20. I don't really have a career plan.

Damien Hirst

#21. I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.

Kristen Stewart

#22. Well, any time I'm preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, it's as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.

Renee Fleming

#23. What is important for me is playing cricket and not thinking about how my Test career is shaping up. I am not into future planning and all. I am concerned about my present and not the future.

Suresh Raina

#24. Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

Christian Bale

#25. The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

Andrei Codrescu

#26. So Henry," Puck said as he kicked off his shoes and propped his smelly feet on the kitchen table. "I was wondering what you can tell me about puberty."
Henry turned pale and stammered.
Sabrina wanted to crawl under the table and die.

Michael Buckley

#27. The World Series of Poker was becoming popular, and there were a lot of really bad poker players out there. The misperception was that I was really good, but I just ground it out. It was a good way to make money for Box.

Dylan Smith

#28. The quality of your ideas 'your actual thoughts' determines your success more than you think.

Auliq Ice

#29. In life, most short cuts end up taking longer than taking the longer route.

Suzy Kassem