Little Simz Quotes

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

You have to know what you want out of your work or out of your life.

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

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?'

I wouldn't say there isn't a direct path to a successful career. There are people who knew exactly what they wanted to do from a very young age, weren't going to be diverted, and then they just went out and achieved it.

I've always had a very clear vision of what I wanted to do.

I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life. It made it easier to pick out classes at college, like, 'Oh, this is writing classes, that's what I'm doing.'

The thing where I've always been lucky is, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

Not too many people know what they want to do at 3 and then go do it.

I knew what I wanted to do with my life: I wanted to fight.

I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

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.

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever.

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

I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.

Basically, we've grown up very focused on the institution. The institution tells me what to do. It tells me where to go. It tells me what my career path is, and then I, sort of, attach my own personal desires, my own personal interests. I think we're living in a time where we're going to have to change - to put people in the center.

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

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

I wanted to be a lot of things in my life.

I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.

I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.