Alberto Giacometti Quotes

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want.

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

I don't know what drives me.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

I've always wanted better for myself; I just didn't know what route I was going to take.

I'm constantly trying to figure out my life and what's next. I'm never satisfied with what I have.

Ask yourself honestly, who do you wanna be and what are you willing to do to become that person?

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

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.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

I record myself talking. I have a journal. And when I listen back, I remember why I wanted certain things. I listen to me at 16, saying 'I really wanna be on TV... I want a movie, a huge movie...' and I'm just like, 'Yo, I'm humbled. I'm living a life I imagined.'

It's getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work... I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

Even while in school - initially, Vineberg Allen in Mussourie, and later, a number of schools in Ludhiana - I aspired to achieve great things in life. Admittedly, I wasn't quite sure about what these great things would be.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.