Gordon Moore Quotes

Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware.

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 wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.

I don't think it's by any means an end to my career.

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace. American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I've been able to... stomach.

I don't think anyone wants to be in a role forever.

Career diversification ain't a bad thing.

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

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.

I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.

You can hit the proverbial roof at certain areas in the industry unless you venture out. And I never really set out in my career to stay in one place. I wanted to go out and try new things. Luckily, I've had that opportunity.

I do not think my career is over after being at Real Madrid.

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.

There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.

I believe in career cycles and when one is close to ending you start to plan things. It's the moment for a change.

I guess my career has gone in a roundabout way.

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.

I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-year A.D.D.

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.

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.

I would leave the industry in a moment if I thought I was going to get stuck in one particular area of it.