Joshua Lederberg Quotes

I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

I always found new challenges in my career.

I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.

You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.

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

I had in mind a long career.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

Your post-college years should be an exploratory time in your professional life. From your early twenties and on into your early thirties, you should feel free to explore your professional prospects. Keep an open mind, and don't expect to get everything right straight out of the gate. Be prepared to start over once or twice.

I'm very much focused on my career.

I don't know where I'm at in my career and I don't really keep track of that or care about that.

Every successful career I've ever known was filled with long periods of meandering, months or even years when no one knew what would happen next. Look at me: I started as a geology major turned failed realtor.

I'm not sure if career can be planned.

I was a late bloomer on the career front.

I think with anything career-related, there really is no rush.

You never know the way your career takes.

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.

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.