Michael Mina Quotes

I left Starbucks in 2015. When I was younger, I remember looking at Justin Bieber and wishing I had all these fans, but you know what? Everyone has their path, everyone's path is different, and this is where mine's going. I just didn't want to work at Starbucks. I wanted to be writing music all the time.

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

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.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

I learn by going where I have to go.

Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.

You're still young. Don't panic. It's hard to know what you should be doing in your 20s. Try different things, have some fun, and see what happens.

Life is just a journey and how you traverse it is what matters.

Everyone's path is different. It's not always about money - sometimes it's about the journey.

The one message I always send to young people is, Don't be afraid to try different things to see what feels right and what's a good fit.

I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want, which has worked out well for me.

My advice to young people everywhere: Choose schools that encourage self-discovery early on. Don't be afraid to buck convention. And when someone asks you what you want to do with the rest of your life, take the time to really think about it.

Lot of people know very early what they want, but I didn't know I wanted acting.

It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.

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 have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

I would like them all to enjoy life and try different things until there is something they really like.

I know where I'm going to be, I'm not traveling here and there and everywhere. That didn't necessarily prompt me to it but it definitely opened up my mind of saying okay, maybe this is a good time to do this.

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

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