Leonora Carrington Quotes

Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

I feel that I've worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I'm just curious about what I might have done if I'd had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.

As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in work force, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are.

The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

I am personally interested in more than just business schools. However, life has been good to me, and it's been good to me through a business career. I think the chance to help strengthen the foundation of young people going into business, as I did, just appeals to me.

I gave up the idea of having a career when I was 24. Sounds glamorous, but I've been doing things since then, and part of those adventures was to make films because I realised I was actually quite good at it and I enjoyed it.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!

I'm in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won't be able to. So, I don't have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything.

I don't think about a legacy; I think about my life, because I've had quite an unpredictable life.

There's not much that I haven't done in my life, but there's lots of things that I'd like to do better. The variety of my career has been the fun of it, and I can thank Canada for that.

Boxing life is very interesting life; it opened many doors for me around the world, but now I am ready to invest my energy and my experience and my power for the future.

At the end of the day, you go through different paths in the league. I wouldn't change anything about it.

People I knew in high school have gone in many directions, as I have gone in my particular direction. They now have different and absorbing interests of their own, just as I have mine.

What I went through in personal life had a big impression on my professional choices.

When I was younger, I had a different disposition as far as how I wanted to live life.

Having regrets is the only sign that you’ve done anything interesting with your life.

I have a whole journey - everybody does in life.

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.

I went to university - I never would have gone to university through football. I've got a degree. I've got a master's. I've met some amazing people, I've lived my dream. I've picked up so many skill sets that I never would have.

I had dropped out of Memphis State University after two years because I felt the real world was too exciting.

I used to choose friends based on similarity in age and life stage, but I've learned that those were the wrong criteria. Trying to live life exclusively alongside others our own age is like attempting to climb Mt. Everest without a Sherpa. It's a little dangerous.

College was such a pivotal time for me. It's a time when you have so much growth, and you kind of can choose one of many different paths.