Drew Gilpin Faust Quotes

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

I hate to predict my future. I never really thought I would be a head coach at 34 years old. I never thought I would be traded to Tampa. I never even really thought I would be fired, even though I probably deserved it. I try not to predict things.

Sometimes in the world, there's such pressure to follow a certain path that we forget the importance of learning as we go.

I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

I'm never going to rule anything out in life, because most of what I'm doing now, I never intended to do.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'

I have enormous respect for the human being because they're asked to take on a lot. And I don't think there's any easy solution. But I think the journey is what you have to finally be satisfied with, but not be afraid of the lessons one has to learn... it ends up as grace. And you grow; you find a way to continue.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.

I've been the teenage success, I've been homeless and driving around in my car and not knowing where to eat. You just want to keep working and learning, and I was doing that. If I hadn't done 'Wild Bill,' I'm sure I would have acted in something else.

I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.

It's been said of me that I must get out of bed every morning and go cartwheeling down the road. Of course it's not true. There certainly was a time in my 20s when I wanted a bit of freedom, and I found that difficult, but if I'm ever having a time when I'm feeling sorry for myself, something always jolts me back.

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

From the time I was 16, I wanted to live in Paris. When I graduated college and didn't have a job, I went to take the LSAT because I didn't know what else to do. I walked out in the middle of the test and eventually found an internship in Paris at L'Oreal.