Quotes About Planning Your Career

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

Auliq Ice

#2. 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

#3. When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.

Michael Chiklis

#4. It's not the job of an actor to judge your character

Daniel Craig

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Your career is your business.

Auliq Ice

#8. 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

#9. The whole purport of literature ... is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

Thornton Wilder

#10. 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

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

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#12. 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

#13. Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.

Augusten Burroughs

#14. 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

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

Reid Hoffman

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

Christian Bale

#17. There are two types of pain: pain that hurts you and pain that changes you.

Brett Hoebel

#18. It is impossible to stand for intellectual freedom without grappling with censorship.

Frances M. Jones

#19. There are two things that have been true throughout history in big hunks. You can find differences in ten years, but in 50 year hunks, 100 years hunks, you'll find two things to be true. One, the world is always getting better. Two, people always think it's getting worse.

Penn Jillette

#20. 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

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

Suzy Kassem

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

Auliq Ice

#23. The more we incline our hearts and minds toward God, the more heavenly light distills upon our souls. Gradually, things that before seemed hazy, dark, and remote become clear, bright and familiar with us.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#24. Did you call me a pig? (Stryder)
I called you a pigheaded boar. (Zenobia)
Isn't that redundant? (Stryder)

Kinley MacGregor

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

Christian Bale

#26. It is possible to share a dial-up Internet connection by using software tools, but it's also possible to push a stalled car up a muddy hill.

Quentin Docter

#27. A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.

Elisabeth Elliot

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. There is a God we want and a God who is, and the two are not the same.

Ligon Duncan

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

Kristen Stewart

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

Damien Hirst

#33. 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

#34. As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't even know exist. It doesn't feel like work.

Richard Shepard

#35. 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