Linda Vester Quotes

I didn't really have a road map ever.

People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.

I don't really like to say, 'This is where I'll be in five years,' because I truly have no idea.

I don't usually paint a big picture on what I'll do in the future.

There are so many things I want to do! Some are personal. Some are professional.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

Not many college students know what they want to do.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

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 really don't have a clear trajectory at all.

I'm not sure if I'll become Dr. Du Toit. I'm at the early stages of a long journey.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

People don't seem to want vision anymore, in large part because they sense that no one has a vision that can encompass a contradictory world.

You don't know where you'll end up.

Will I go back to Milan one day? I don't know what the future will be.

I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward.

I feel like 'Harlem River' was me putting one foot out the door of New York, and 'Still Life' is between Point A and Point B. It's the grey area.

Growing up, I would think I want to do this, I want to do that. You change your mind a million times.

In the end, what I'm trying to say as a person who does all this travel and fashions these images is that you arrive at an approximate location but never one destination.

I have planned my whole future, my whole life. And nine out of 10 times, it never happens the way you want or plan or think it's going to happen.

In any case, I am not a great one to make plans for the future.

I tried to talk to the graduates who haven't figured what they're going to do next. The kids who are heading in medical school or law school, they've got pretty much figured where they're headed in life. But there are so many kids out there, that are just going, they're still kids. They've always been promoted from grade to grade.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.