Tom Steyer Quotes

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

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.

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

People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something.

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

I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.

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

Money comes and goes. But when you look back on your career, you have be able to answer to yourself, 'Did I make the most of my time on earth?'

My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.

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

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.

I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.

Definitely working on 'Deal or No Deal' was a learning experience, and it helped me to understand what I would rather be doing.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

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.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.