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For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.
Sep 10, 2025
we compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet
I am always going to be a theater actor at heart. One of my career goals is to do "Shakespeare in the Park" someday but for now I am really excited to get working on another movie.
I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.
My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.
I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away.
Every time I've gotten myself into trouble, it's because I'm choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment.
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.
Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
I made a career goals list for 2017 and it's so funny. I have low self-esteem or something, so I put both wishes and goals. The goals were things I'm going to do anyway, because I have no choice because my job is to do stand-up comedy so I have to tour and I have to write stuff. The wishes were all things that could be goals. As in, I bet people who have achieved these things called them goals at one point. But I haven't looked at that piece of paper since.
I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
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