Damien Hirst Quotes

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.

Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.

I won't give up my day job of design.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

If I were not able anymore to come to the lab, that's retirement. Or if I had no more ideas of things. Every year, there's something new that comes along that's too exciting to quit.

I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.

I've no idea if I want to do this for the rest of my life, so I want to try and work with the best people I can.

I never one time mentioned anything to any coach about retirement or joining the CIA or anything like that.

Even though a lot of people keep trying to get me to retire, I won't.

When you get older you do one film at a time.

For me, call me what you want, as long as I'm working.

I do not look at the end of my career with any fear.

People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.

Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

I think we should be able to work until we want to stop, which is what I'm going to have to do.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.

I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.