Edward Carpenter Quotes

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.

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 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.

Growing up, I would think I want to do this, I want to do that. You change your mind a million times.

I graduated college valedictorian, got an M.A. from Columbia University in Spanish literature at the age of twenty-two, and still couldn't answer the question 'What do you want to do with your life?'

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.

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

Sometimes I wake up and think, 'How did I get here?'

Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don't have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.

I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.

I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had an orientation class and we met this guy where he worked and stuff and it was cool, but I was like, 'There is no way this is going to be my life.'

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.

I don't know what drives me. I need to work. I wanted to be in the entertainment field, but I didn't know what.

I did some good stuff over in the U.K., but I wasn't consistently working. For a while there, I was going, 'Do I really want to do this - should I go back to university?'

I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.

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

Even though we're really, really happy with what we do, sometimes I think - as an adult, you think, 'Should I be more responsible with my life choices?'

I know there are certain things I may never achieve depending on whether I stay at the Ospreys or go.

There are times when I wish I would have gotten a degree, but the past is history, and tomorrow's a mystery.

I haven't always made all of the right decisions from a career perspective, but things worked out in the end.

I'm, like, finishing up high school. I don't know how you can learn anything from me because I'm still, like, a teenager. I don't know what I'm doing with my life.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.