Justin Verlander Quotes

It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.

There's not a rocket scientist, not a doctor, not an accountant that 30 years in goes, "Oh, now I'm getting it. Now I can't wait to get back out there because I'm better than ever."

You need to reinvent yourself every day when you are doing creative work. I always say that the moment I feel I'm at the top of the mountain and I cannot do more, I would be finished. So that's why I always feel the earth quake beneath my feet. I always feel myself on the fire. Because I think this is something that gives you the right adrenaline to work and go forward in your professional life. I have reinvented myself, believe me, many times in my life!

If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career

I couldn't do the same job for 30 years. That would make me want to kill myself. Other people do it and they're very happy doing it, but for me, that's not what I want. I like changing things, all the time.

I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change...I can't be the candy queen forever.

With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school. Each time you try to go a little further, get a little deeper, feel a little more, sculpt it a little better.

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.

In 59 years I haven’t had to reinvent myself once.

The goal is to work as much as possible in projects I respect and that will help me grow.

It's very rare that you can be in a career for as long as I have and still feel like you're constantly learning and coming at it from an almost childlike perspective.

I think if you stop learning, there's not much point, and so I always hope to be challenged. That's the beauty of this job.

For my career, I want to be able to do projects that have serious context to them or that make me grow as a person and an artist after the experience.

I just wanted to go to the right team, a team that was going to allow me to learn and come in and just be me.

When I first got into this league, I knew a lot. But I made myself better by listening and working hard.

I believe that I'm going to have a long career, as long as I want, and I think by me going out into the world living a little bit made me... gave me more depth, so when I do go, going into movies is much easier for me.

The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

Always, in your career and personal life, be evolving with technology.

I feel like I have a skill set, but every experience is different and there's always room for improvement.

We need to start work with the idea that we’re going to learn every day. I learn, even at my position, every single day.