Lisa Ling Quotes

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

I have a whole, you know, pocket full of dreams I want to achieve. I don't know in which order they're going to fall.

It's difficult when you want it all.

I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.

I didn't have any idea what I wanted to be when I grew up.

I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.

Growing up, I could never decide what I wanted to be because I wanted to be so many things.

Of course, you have always the goal for years to go there and to reach the top, but then if you are there, you actually don't know what to expect.

In my mind, I was never going to have the things I wanted if I played music for a living, unless I became a rock star.

I cannot really say how many goals I will score.

I don't usually paint a big picture on what I'll do in the future.

After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.

She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!' She meant her future. A moon-daisy dropped to the floor, down from her hair, like a faintly derisive sign from heaven.

He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do. He wondered if he should kiss her. He wondered if he wanted to kiss her, and he realized that he truly didn't know.

It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.

You can have it all but how much do you want it?

A small heart hath small desires.

We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.

I may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take.

Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

Well, I guess I can wait two weeks then." "for what?" "to ask her out

Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.