Caroline Dhavernas Quotes

I've had a lot of starts and stops as far as my career is concerned, but I think what I am able to do is to put things into perspective.

The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.

I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.

When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.

Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42.

For the majority of my career, I've been surprised that I've been able to sustain any kind of a plan. I was always happy to have the job, and I was having a good time. I was growing. But I don't feel all that strongly about my work.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

If a day goes by that I'm not on television, I don't look at it as a lesser day, nor do I look at changing from a news world to a sports world as any sort of step other than a step in a new direction.

I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.

I could sit around and cry about losing jobs because I'm not a TV star, or I could go and take something into my own hands and try to make it in this world, too.

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle.

Your ability will get you the job, but you also need to have age on your side. So if you started your career at 21, you have an advantage over others in your batch who started at, say, 24.

You go and find work wherever it is, and you learn from it. No matter what the experience is, you can always file something away as knowledge.

Your career is not going to go the way you planned. It is impossible at the age of 23 to pick the right industry, the right company, and you can visualize what you're going to be doing in your 40s, 50s, and 60s, but chances are that it's going to be something quite different. So remain open to opportunities and change.

I tend to change research direction every few years or so.

You take the job, you learn from it, and you move on.

I think I've had a bit of a stop-start career. I came onto the scene quite early, and then I paused for a bit.

I have always said I am a player who looks for new challenges.

I think everyone's got an obstacle in their career that they have to challenge. I think, in a way, that pushes you to prove who you are.

When I left Leipzig I was thinking about my next step, and I want to stand in front of a new team, new language, to get developed personally and in my view of football. That's why I made the decision to come to Southampton.