Anderson Cooper Quotes

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

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.

It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.

I don't really know how to build a career or what to do. But I have the instinct to keep doing different things so people can see different things.

Before 'Broad City,' I had a lot of jobs that I knew were not for me, but when you're young and don't know exactly what you're going to do, if an opportunity comes up, you feel like, 'This is an opportunity; I have to try it.'

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I 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.

I grew up always knowing what I wanted to do, and I'm starting to see how rare that is. All of my friends are just figuring it out. It's a process of elimination until you find what you love.

Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.

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.

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.

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

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 really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

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

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'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

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