Ray Walston Quotes

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

You have to take control of your own career.

I have been in control of what I've been doing, of the career I've put together.

We want to start them thinking that they're responsible for their own career.

One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, “If it is to be, it is up to me.” That is, for you, the fact that your success and your course is up to you. This doesn’t mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career.

I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

Honestly, the thing that I have found to be most useful over a long career, or maintaining a long career, is taking back the power at some point and self-producing.

I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.

You want to be in the driver’s seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.

We have to pilot our own dreams - we cannot entrust them to anyone else.

The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.

I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

You shape your own destiny.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.