Taapsee Pannu Quotes

I'm not an engineer. I did not study engineering in school. But I was a super ambitious student growing up.

When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.

I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

No matter what your career aspirations are, you should begin by thinking carefully about why you are engaging in any activity and what you can expect to get out of it.

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my classes for it, but I got lazy my senior year in high school and didn't get my paperwork in.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.

I thought I'd get an MBA, and then I could be anything. And I'd write on the side. That was the idea.

Ever since I started all of this TV weirdness, I just tried to make each year better than before professionally.

I do not want to be a journeyman.

I want to concentrate on my career and would like to scale greater heights.

I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.

I was a history undergrad, and there's some things I could do in academics or business.

If my ambition was to stay a manager the rest of my life, then I'd probably follow what people think managers are supposed to be like, but my ambition was never to be a manager.

This is what I wanted all along, and after I finished my studies and begun the job of testing jet aircraft, well, there wasn't a happier pilot in the air force.

I come from a family of working professionals: my dad is a chartered accountant, and my mom is a professor.

Of course, as a kid, I had no idea what was practical: I wanted to be a paleontologist, then an astronaut.

I knew I wanted to be a part of NASA in any case, and so I chose my goals in education to be consistent with working at NASA even as, you know, a scientist.

I progressed through my schooling, undergraduate and graduate degrees, excited about math and science and engineering, but really didn't think about being an astronaut at that point. It was kind of unreachable.

I would have gone to Loughborough to study business management and was looking forward to that very much.

A career is forward planning.