Emily Giffin Quotes

Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don't have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.

If you had asked me, did I have everything nailed down and wired about what I wanted to do, and was I following some real plan? No. In fact, by the time I was in my mid-20s or even late-20s, and I was still in the law firm, I really was starting to get a little nervous that I didn't know what I was going to do.

When I got outta school, I didn't know what I was gonna do with my life. I knew I didn't have much in the grades department, and so I was very fearful. A whole lot of fear.

I'm so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do.

I'm not ready to decide if modeling is what I want to do with my life.

I went through a phase after we won the World Cup of 'what am I going to do with my life.'

When I was younger - up until I was 19 years old and in college - I was surrounded with people in high school who felt like they knew what they wanted to do with their lives, and that was intimidating to me because I didn't.

There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost.

Sometimes I wake up and think, 'How did I get here?'

For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.

I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had an orientation class and we met this guy where he worked and stuff and it was cool, but I was like, 'There is no way this is going to be my life.'

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.

I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.

I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.

As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

If you've been laid off, you know how it goes: Everything you thought you knew and liked about yourself gets called into question.

I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

I was a confused young man. I didn't know what I wanted to be.