Neri Oxman Quotes

I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.

For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.

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 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.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

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.

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

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

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.

Lot of people know very early what they want, but I didn't know I wanted acting.

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.

The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

I had a very good friend who was two years older than I was, and she was in law school, and she said, 'It's a great thing to do when you have no idea what you want to do.' And she was right. I learned a lot, I practiced law for 10 years. I've never looked back once I stopped practicing law, but it was a really good experience.

If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time.

Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.

Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up. Longitudinal studies following thousands of people across time have shown that most people only begin to gravitate toward certain vocational interests, and away from others, around middle school.

I think being in the city is the perfect way to figure out what I want to do.

Undergrad, for me, in college was really about, you know, how do I become a professional. But business school, for me, was how do I become the person that I'm meant to be.

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.

I took a long time after 'Curious' to find something I really wanted to do.