Walter Alston Quotes

I don't worry when I go away for a while. I think there is a place for me. It may not be at the top of the heap. But that doesn't bother me, either. I think I will always be able to get work - which is the only thing I have ever really been interested in.

I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.

I'm taking it step by step and not thinking at all about a new contract.

I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.

I am not the type of person who can leave my game at the ballpark and feel comfortable that my future is set regardless of my performance.

It's a very different feeling to work on a show with a future.

Could I stay at Bayern my entire career? I'm not the type of person who looks that far ahead. I am setting short-term goals instead.

I have a backup plan. Everybody should have a backup plan. I am a banker. The day you all get bored of me and don't want to watch my films, I will go back to banking.

I do not look at the end of my career with any fear.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

People want security in this insecure world.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

I'm very, very fortunate to be in the job that I'm in, and I would love for it to continue forever, but it won't. I have to financially and emotionally prepare for the day that 'Mad Men' will go away, because who knows what my next job is going to be?

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.

I don't know how long anything is going to last, so I have to make sure I have something to do tomorrow.

Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'

I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.

For one thing, there is no guarantee that I am even going to work again. I hope I will and will go on to have a long career.

If I want another job, I'll get one. I haven't set a date of when to stop managing.

Obviously, I'm going to graduate college. So if sports don't work out, I'll have something to fall back on.

In my head, I felt if I'd stayed at City and got a chance, I could have done a good job. It was made clear that wasn't going to happen, though.