Lidia Bastianich Quotes

I know that the harder you work, the more you learn, the more connections you make. You've just got to be prepared to keep putting yourself out there. You have to make it happen.

Sitting on my butt waiting on opportunities won't do me any good.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

If I can't find anything good, I am just going to have to get my butt in gear and start learning how to do everything.

You've got to want it. I can give you a role. I can't give you a career.

Every job I do, I feel like it is an amazing opportunity. I try to throw myself into every role with everything I have.

I've always looked for challenges, and I have found plenty.

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.

I can always do better. I can always find a way to make more plays and be more effective.

No matter how commonplace or dull your first job's duties seem, chances are you can find something to do that others don't want to and make it your own.

I try to make the most of the opportunities I am presented with.

I'm poised to take any opportunity, I'm poised to keep myself in tip-top shape because that's what I love to do.

I make my own opportunities no matter what.

I think with 'Claws,' it came at such a perfect time where I really started to focus and to take myself seriously.

I'm looking to try to do more out there and just taking advantage of the opportunities that I've been given.

The truth is I've trained myself for much of my career.

If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.

I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves.

If it isn't your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.