Ellen Hopkins Quotes

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.

I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives. I think it's criminal - child abuse - that they're not told to do this [in school]. Right now it's just sex education and putting condoms on bananas. Girls should be asked to think about what they want in their lives when they're 50, 60 and 70.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.

When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

…working not for the small pleasures of today but for the future security and improvement of the race.

I have always said that after sport, I wanted a life, I wanted an opportunity, I wanted to be able to do something. And if something happens - the economy falls out or the dollar is worthless, anything could happen - you have to be ready to work. And I'm ready.

I have seen too many people in my career think that there is some natural progression to life, with certain career milestones preceding whatever you may want in your personal life. Unfortunately, life doesn't know it is supposed to follow a schedule.

I've always had a plan. Even since, maybe, 12 years old. Really.

Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person.

I've been working on this career path of mine since I was three years old.

A career is forward planning.

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

I've always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It's important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are you gonna do after college and after you no longer can bounce the ball.

I'm a young 32, but I want to do this only so long, so that when I'm 37-38, people can understand what I'm saying when I talk to them.

To be honest, I'm not the kind of guy to think about the future in the long term.

I always focus on what is next in my career.

My goal is to keep going out there and defending my belt and stacking up pay cheques to set myself up for the future.