James Maddison Quotes

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.

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.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.

I think my mantra for saying yes to anything is just, 'Oh, I think that'll be a cool, interesting project,' or - sadly! - 'Ooh, this will help my career.'

As far as my career goes, I've never really had an opportunity to reflect on what I've done, with taking in the accolades and achievements that I've been able to bring together.

I will always worry about where my career is going and am I any good.

I'm pretty happy with my career. I just know what I'm capable of.

If my ambition was to stay a manager the rest of my life, then I'd probably follow what people think managers are supposed to be like, but my ambition was never to be a manager.

I'm someone who takes on information quite well, so there's maybe a path into management. But I see what successful managers have to go through to get to that level - it's a completely different ball game - so I think I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

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.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

There's a lot of people that I would love to work with. There's a lot of different kinds of parts I wanna play. As your career progresses, you hope that you get some more opportunity or some more choice.

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.

Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.

No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.