Walter Isaacson Quotes

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.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I think it's okay not knowing what you want to become.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

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.

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn't what I want to do.' I was like, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to go out and make something of myself, and I have no clue what that is.'

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

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!

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

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

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

I had always wanted to belong, and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead, I had no idea how I wanted to live my life. And no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence. So I had to confront that.

I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.

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.

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

I was a confused young man. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

I'm so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do.

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.

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

I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know now that I should have taken advantage of that time and that I missed a great deal of the opportunity to educate myself.

I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives. I think it's criminal - child abuse - that they're not told to do this [in school]. Right now it's just sex education and putting condoms on bananas. Girls should be asked to think about what they want in their lives when they're 50, 60 and 70.