Joe Cornish Quotes

Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.

You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.

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.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's 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).

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

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 wanted to be a lot of things in my life.

I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.

Growing up, you have all these ideas, and then you're confronted and faced with the real world for the first time. And you have to think of what you want your life to be.

You have a certain number of dreams in your life you want to fulfill.

When you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams?

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

I wanna live.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.

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.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

The worst question is, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I don't know. Variety is the spice of life. That's the best way to describe it.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.