Jessica Alba Quotes

I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see what project comes up that can move me to this or that level.' I take stuff as it comes, and it just so happens that it hasn't dried up yet, touch wood.

I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

Maybe I'd be in a different place in my career if I'd had that 10-year plan, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix.

My only intention is to just have a little bit more success so that my career is easier and I don't have to work so hard just to get a job.

It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.

My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.

I don't get much career advice at all, and I would like some.

I'm patient when it comes to my career, which is unlike me, but there are no stars in my eyes.

Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

I think I made the wrong career choice

I don't want to end my career and then start something. I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing.

A large part of the reason I want to be so mysterious is so that I can move on and do something serious at some point in my career X years from now. It might be very difficult otherwise, because I'm... wild

As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

So many women now in China are entering the workforce and also taking up very important positions CEOs, for example. The problem for many such women now is how to balance all the different kind of responsibilities that they take on and that they want to take up. They have to balance family and work and maybe kids. Chinese woman really have a strong desire to do that. They want to grab a hold of all these things. They are willing and able. But there is the challenge of how to keep the balance.

I'm not at the place in my career necessarily where I'm like offered every role.

Part of what's exciting to me about my career is the constant looking forward. Whenever I finish one project, I am looking to what's next.

I never gave my career much strategic thought. Maybe I should have.

I never try boost my career of the less fortunate somebody. Because if I gotta call and get press off of it - it ain't coming from my heart.

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.

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.

Search for role models you can look up to and people who take an interest in your career. But here's an important warning: you don't have to have mentors who look like you. Had I been waiting for a black, female Soviet specialist mentor, I would still be waiting. Most of my mentors have been old white men, because they were the ones who dominated my field.

I think a lot of people try to plan things in their career. They feel like, If I don't get this done by the time I'm thirty, everything's over. But I've worked with a lot of people whose careers shot to the top later in life.