Sam Keen Quotes

There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.

There comes a turning point in the life of every person when he reflects on his journey and work and ponders on the next road to take. Is this the pinnacle, the ultimate? What next?

You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

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.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

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.

We should definitely be more careful about the things that we chose to do with our lives.

In the small remaining journey of life that I have left, I want to choose who I want to be with and to hang around.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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?'

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.