Richard Rogers Quotes

I try not to look back on my career.

The notion of 'building a career' had never been heard or dreamed of when I was young.

I meet a lot of people that grew up with my career and have retired, and I just want to talk to them. I like to get a feeling from them, a feeling of the old times.

I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.

I love things that have one foot in history - I was going to be a history professor before I sold out and went into TV.

Our career had a sort of funny shape.

I was thrust, excitingly, via 'Elizabeth' and 'Shakespeare in Love,' into a position one can only dream of, but it was startling, too. I was offered a multitude of roles riding horses in flouncy shirts, and I just thought, 'Hang on, I've just done that. What next?'

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out.

If you look at my career, you'll find that the same record doesn't show up more than once. I try to challenge myself with every project.

I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.

Most people don't go back to trial work after being in management, but I couldn't do anything else.

In order to stay ahead of the young talent, you have to pay attention. You have to see what young talents are doing, and I see what a lot of young talents are doing.

I would rather have a career where I improve year after year than go to the top and then decline. There are a lot of strikers that reached the top before 25, but after 25, they went down.

I don't think I ever would have imagined having this career.

I wasn't born in the wrong decade.

Engineering has proven to be one of the most fruitful tracks of study in the job market, as the skills and training developed by an engineering program are far more versatile than many believed.

There is an idea that at some point in your career, you 'make it.' I understand the theory of 'making it.' I don't exactly think that it's the best way to look at it.

I don't reflect back too much on moments in my career.

In 1998, Nasdaq started a project called Next Nasdaq - or what Nasdaq was going to become - and they decided to handpick some of the up-and-comers. I was chosen as one of the people. It was a great opportunity for me and, I guess, a reflection of the fact that I was seen as someone who was developing her career pretty well.

Me being in a managerial position has never crossed my mind. Even in the twilight of my career.

I have nothing against smaller roles; they made me what I am today. But, progression is the way of life.

I can't make the new generation like me, because they didn't grow up on me. So I stick to what I know.

Towards the end of my career, I was thinking about going into the media world. It's crucial: with three to four years left in the game, you begin to plan for the end.

If you'd asked me at the start of my career I would have said I was going to be a manager. I may still be in future, but there seemed to be an expectation it was a natural progression for me.

I would be very happy if my career ended the way it started.