Scott Foley Quotes

The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

I've found my purpose in life, definitely.

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

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.

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.

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

It's funny the way life works. Sometimes you go around in a weird path to find out exactly what it is that you love to do, and I'm happy that I've sort of discovered something that makes me really happy.

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?'

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

You can end up living your life pretty incrementally, and that's boring.