Naga Chaitanya Quotes

There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.

I have an interest in everything, but I don't have an interest in starting new careers.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

People have these ideas of what you're supposed to do to have a career, like play against type, or don't revisit a character. I'm just not that precious.

Doors open to you every time you get a different role. So, yeah, the research is my passion; that's why I keep doing it.

I've done everything that there is to do in this business.

I always found new challenges in my career.

I always focus on what is next in my career.

I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience. I worked hard as a teacher. But those are completely different career paths. And the lack of direction is why I didn't get far enough in any of those things.

I'm quite sure there are other things that I could have done in life whether it's working for Humana, teaching in college, high school teacher. Coaching stuck.

When work starts feeling too comfortable, fire yourself; go get another job.

Be willing to take on career risks.

You never know the way your career takes.

NXT is a land of opportunity.

Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.

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.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

The time to realize that you need to transition out of your job is when you know that you've grown out of the role that you were doing before.

I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.

I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life. That's how my parents were; my parents have been teachers for as long as I've known 'em. I was worried that I'd gotten into something that I was going to hate.

The career stuff is for business people.

Luckily, I'm doing other things besides just modeling, because frankly, I'm a little bored with it.