Blake Griffin Quotes

The whole point of college is to find yourself, to figure out things before you go into the real world.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

I'd promised my parents that I'd go to college, take the time to grow up a bit, and experience something different before really pursuing music.

It wasn't until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me... That's when I started to turn to literature as something deeper than a way to put up points.

When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility.

I needed the time to go to college and spend years with people who aren't in the business and become a person on my own in order to be the person that I am and the performer that I am. I wouldn't give that up to be in blockbusters or have more money.

College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

That's the great thing about university: you've got people around you who are taking a risk and trying things out themselves. It gives you the confidence to try and take it to the next step, which was drama school.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

I definitely want to continue being an actress. I love it. The reason I'm going to college is because I do want knowledge in another field. College isn't the college experience for me. I'm not going to be in a sorority. I'm not going to network. I'm not even really going to make my lifelong friends.

I don't know if ISU helped me become what I am, but I know that if I hadn't gone there, I wouldn't be what I am today.

I don't regret any decision in my life... not my career, not marriage. Every experience has been so fulfilling in so many ways.

I personally can barely remember what I was like before I came to college, what made me happy or worried or confident. I don't remember what I expected in my future, except that 'President of the United States' was about halfway up the ladder.

I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.

Playing four years of college, you learn a lot; you learn more about yourself than anything.

It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.

Every decision you make ... is a decision about Who You Are.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.