Alice Waters Quotes

I'm not ready to decide if modeling is what I want to do with my life.

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.

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.

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

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

I think people tend to fall into their careers sometimes, and maybe that's a lucky path to follow because you actually end up doing your purpose.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

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

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 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 didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

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 always grapple with myself, from job to job, 'Is this going to make an impact in some way?'

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

I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.

I'm very passionate about the game, but I don't want to do it as a living. I feel confident in the path that I'm taking now and I didn't feel confident in the path that I was taking with golf - I just realized that I don't want to play professionally.

My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.

Another occupation might have been better.

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.

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

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 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.

You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that's a question I've often asked myself.

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.