Clifton Fadiman Quotes

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

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 had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.

Sometimes I wake up and think, 'How did I get here?'

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does.

I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.

I think when you are young and you don't really know what you want in life, you can commit to something and think at the time it is right.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

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.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!