Imran Amed Quotes

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job, and life is too short for that.

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

I never pondered during my struggling phase that I should have become an engineer, as I knew that was not my life. I couldn't have lived it. It would have been a very claustrophobic life.

I don't know what kind of career I want to forge for myself. But I want it to be one where I love the work that I've done. And I like to think that I have good instincts.

You have to know what you want out of your work or out of your life.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, 'That's not gonna make me happy.'

I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

I don't work at something because I think it's important. I work at things that, to me, are interesting.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.