Pamela Nicholson Quotes

I always found new challenges in my career.

'One Tree Hill' was a great learning opportunity for me, and I'm excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.

Doors open to you every time you get a different role. So, yeah, the research is my passion; that's why I keep doing it.

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

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.

I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

I tell people in their careers, 'Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.'

I just love where I am right now in my career.

The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.

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

If you've been working since you were a teenager and working at a reasonably decent level, then you don't expect that you're going to be firmly in your 40s and start moving up in the world, if you like.

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.

In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.

I think for anybody, regardless of what industry you work in, when you get a new job, and it's progressive in terms of your career, that is one of the best feelings in the world.

The decisions that you make in your career stem out from the experiences you have early on in your career.

I'm delighted with how my career unfolded.

As an employee, you can't work for someone forever.

It was hard to know if anything, any one particular thing, increased my career or not.

When I was at the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' I was promoted nine times in my first 13 years. I ultimately went from general assignment to beats on St. Joe's and Temple, to backup writer, to NBA writer, to NBA columnist, to, ultimately, in 2003, to general sports columns.

'I' is bound to have an impact on my career.