Jurgen Klinsmann Quotes

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

I have been in control of what I've been doing, of the career I've put together.

I was never one of those people that would just take jobs that were thrown at me.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

You have to take control of your own career.

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

I need to know what I'm doing. I've got my own career. I'm not waiting.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then.

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

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

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

I've seen what can happen to an actor when he's just working for the sake of working. All of a sudden it's ten years later, your career's happened, and you haven't had any control.

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.

I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

We all control our careers. Those choices that you make are so critical.

I'm in that lucky percentile where I can worry about how I want to shape my career. That's a wonderful place to be.

Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.

I'd like to think that every job and every step I've taken progressed more and more toward the career that I've wanted to have.