Kevin Mitnick Quotes

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.

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?'

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

The difficulty in life is the choice.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

The best path through life is the highway.

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

We all have to make choices in life.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything.

Back in 2000, I had come to a crossroads in my life, unsure about what career path I should pursue. Shepherd, bouncer, philosopher king, ventriloquist or perhaps man on the flying trapeze. Fortunately, I was guided back onto the path of the magical world of music.

I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

I know I wouldn't be a New York Yankee if it wasn't for my mom: the guidance she gave me as a kid growing up, knowing the difference from right and wrong, how to treat people and how to go the extra mile and put in extra work, all that kind of stuff.

There are always myriad choices in life - some work out, some don't, and you just have to focus on the present.

You are responsible for the choices you make in this life period, end of story.