Caroline Ghosn Quotes

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.

When we are caught up in the nature of our work and are asked to take on another job or position, rarely do we step back and ask ourselves, 'What do I really want to do? What is it at this point in my career and life that is important to me?'

I don't regret my decision that I left a popular show like 'Balika Vadhu.' I am happy that I am out of the show and took a break for a month in Delhi.

While it can feel unfair to have to make a career decision because of a morally deficient boss, doing so can sometimes lead you in the right direction, if a bit faster than you otherwise would have preferred.

When I tell a woman you really need to quit your soul-sucking job, she goes home, and she can tell her husband, 'I need to quit,' and he's like, 'O.K., let's do it.'

My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.

I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.

Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

We all live in a time where we're supposed to have choices and how do we wrangle that and how do we make the best choices for ourselves and our families. It has nothing to do with feminism.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

I think that's what keeps you grounded - having your own life that's not directed by your job.

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.

I've never thought of myself as a professional. I very rarely do something I don't enjoy.

I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective.

I tried to really look at what's best for my career, what's best for my life, what's best for my family, for me.

My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me.

The main thing for me was that I wanted to be able to decide when my international career would end after 10 years myself.

I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.

Sometimes in life, you have to make a selfish decision and do what's best for you.

The day you stop enjoying something is the day you should quit, if you can afford to.