Benjamin Stone on careers
Benjamin Stone21 quotes“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.”
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To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless.
Benjamin StoneBenjamin Stone I guess at it’s very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it.
Benjamin StoneBenjamin Stone The best thing about the world today is that everyone is connected and you can go online and quickly find people all over the world doing incredible things.
Benjamin StoneBenjamin Stone Science is my JAM. I am very excited to see where science and technological advancements will take us in the next few decades.
Benjamin StoneBenjamin Stone I can’t stand being stagnant. Every day is a new opportunity to achieve something, even on a small scale.
Benjamin StoneBenjamin Stone One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.
Benjamin StoneBenjamin Stone You can’t truly love someone if you also love yourself, just as you can’t love someone if you are not honest with them and they with you – otherwise it’s just infatuation and desire.
Benjamin StoneBenjamin Stone Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning medical experiments that would normally take years can be digitally run taking only hours.
Benjamin StoneBenjamin Stone For the longest time I have had so much belief and confidence in myself, which as an actor you need, because the entertainment industry is incredible competitive, brutal, and unpredictable just when you start to think you know what’s going on.
Benjamin StoneBenjamin Stone If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself.
Benjamin StoneBenjamin Stone Getting up early and setting myself daily targets, even outside of acting, keeps me active and motivated in general and thus happier, which I hope translates into my personality and my work.
Benjamin StoneBenjamin Stone I don’t think I can get anywhere near to fully describing what love is.
Benjamin StoneBenjamin Stone As an actor in-between jobs, it can be hard to stay motivated when you feel like you future is always in someone else’s hands. You are always waiting for someone to look at you and say “YES.”
Benjamin StoneBenjamin Stone I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don’t wait around for success, but who make their own.
Benjamin StoneBenjamin Stone To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless. Love is willing to completely give up your life for someone, to make sacrifices and put them first.
Benjamin StoneBenjamin Stone Successful people inspire me, and I don’t mean just in their career but people who have amazing families, or who have made a difference, or followed their dreams.
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Benedict CumberbatchBenedict Cumberbatch I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
Benedict CumberbatchBenedict Cumberbatch Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher If there’s anything about the business that I love and that I’m extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here.
Ben E. KingBen E. King I’ve met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.
Ben KingsleyBen Kingsley I’m a lot happier in people’s living rooms weekly than I think I would be if I was really, really relying on a movie career to keep me fulfilled and excited.
Ben FeldmanBen Feldman I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
Bebe NeuwirthBebe Neuwirth Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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