Diana Ross Quotes

There are not too many coaches who trust in young guys.

Whenever I have launched a new talent, I have taken complete responsibility, like I am launching my own kid.

I think United always had a plan for me. They nurtured me.

It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.

And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile.

I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.

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.

You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.

It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

Paul Bearer was very influential in the early stages of my career. He constantly hounded me and I just think he realized the potential that was there. He convinced me that I was in the right place and doing the right thing.

David Moyes was one who, at a certain crossroads in my career, he was there. And since then, I've kicked on. That's why he played such a big role in my career.

At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

A strong and dedicated mentor can help a young woman get her foot in the door, get a promotion and get a raise.

I love adventure, so I'm excited to be working on something new and making the transition from reality show contestant to host.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

I think that, as an actor, you have to break out eventually, and if you do it properly, it can be something that's positive.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

I had a very good friend who was two years older than I was, and she was in law school, and she said, 'It's a great thing to do when you have no idea what you want to do.' And she was right. I learned a lot, I practiced law for 10 years. I've never looked back once I stopped practicing law, but it was a really good experience.

I think that there have definitely been points when I've had to fight to move my career in a different direction. I think, 2012, I did a few movies that touched on a darker side, and those are movies I'd been wanting to make and stories I'd been wanting to tell for a while. So I think it definitely takes work to move genres.