Wendi Deng Murdoch Quotes

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

I did some good stuff over in the U.K., but I wasn't consistently working. For a while there, I was going, 'Do I really want to do this - should I go back to university?'

There is some confusion in my mind whether to continue to write on banking or try newer pastures.

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

I did everything, I thought I was going to be in marketing, then I thought advertising then I thought I was going to be an architect and then I was like 'you know what, let me just be a soap star!'

You never know the way your career takes.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.

I treaded water academically and spent much of my summertime as a camp counselor. It seemed a fun thing to do for a person in no way prepared to commit to a career path.

It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don't have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.