Cate Blanchett Quotes

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn't get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven't set out with any list of achievements.

You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate.

I don’t know what I’m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I’ll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I’ll think about a career path.

I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.

I aim for weekly routines with clear goals but make sure I do some stuff that I think I'll value in the long run.

In schools, many kids are asked, "What is your plan?," but many aren't even thinking that far ahead.

I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen.

Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

I try to be very aware of opportunities as they arise. But I don't sit around staring at my navel and thinking about my brand development.

If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time.

I have to say, I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan, and I'm still not.

I don't map out my future to the minute details.

A career is forward planning.

I've never looked at my career as something that I was striving to get to one position or another. For me, it was one step at a time.

Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there

I know friends of mine who have never changed their mind about anything in their lives, despite evidence from all directions. And I think if you can keep an open mind and some understanding, that helps you stay young.

Having your goal to focus on is key, but don't let it become more important than your excellence next year and the year after.

You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.

I think if you keep an open mind and actively look, you find these really great roles that you might have otherwise never even known were out there.

Nobody does a lot of plotting. They can't. Everybody wants to do that in life, but I think it's almost impossible. Opportunities present themselves, and you say, "Hey, is this interesting to me?" Is this something you might want to pursue? Maybe you'll get it, maybe you won't. It really does have to do with a "one foot in front of the other" kind of thing, I think.

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.