Isa Guha Quotes

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

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

I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.

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.

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.

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).

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

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.

Everyone who does comedy at my level thinks the same thing: 'What am I doing with my life?'

I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

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

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.

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'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me. I'd think, when I'm grown up, at 18, then I made it 21, it will be clear what role I should have in life. It never happened. I never signed on the dotted line as the sort of adult my father wanted.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

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 had always wanted to belong, and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead, I had no idea how I wanted to live my life. And no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence. So I had to confront that.

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

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.

I was a confused young man. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

The only big life challenge I think I'm worried about is a mid-life crisis because I've done so little. I think if people who've lived normal lives have mid-life crises and buy motorbikes, what is a man who's done nothing?