Yasmine Al Masri Quotes

I didn't really chart things out, career-wise.

I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'

Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it.

Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I was crazy, probably, at the age of 8 or 10 or 20, if I had said that. So what I would say to people planning their careers is to be ready to improvise. Be ready to follow up on opportunities as they unfold.

I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.

I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see what project comes up that can move me to this or that level.' I take stuff as it comes, and it just so happens that it hasn't dried up yet, touch wood.

Everybody has a different goal and a way of planning his/her career.

I think, in anyone's career, you have to map out some sort of strategy of steps that take you closer to the career you want.

Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person.

I've never looked at my career as something that I was striving to get to one position or another. For me, it was one step at a time.

I don't have a career plan. I've never done that. Things happen accidentally and I've been lucky.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

I have never been choosy throughout my career.

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

No, I never planned my life.

You know, it looks like I have a varied resume or a varied career, that I've made interesting choices, when the truth of the matter is, in a way I've just kind of piece-mealed a career together, you know?

I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career.

I never pursued a career relentlessly.

I have never chosen my next job. I focus on what's in front of me, and serendipity steps in.

I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.