Edgar Z. Friedenberg Quotes

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

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

I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.

I think it's okay not knowing what you want to become.

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know now that I should have taken advantage of that time and that I missed a great deal of the opportunity to educate myself.

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.

I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

I treaded water academically and spent much of my summertime as a camp counselor. It seemed a fun thing to do for a person in no way prepared to commit to a career path.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

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 know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

Everyone has their own talents. It's up to the individual to see what you can actually do.