Diana Penty Quotes

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

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

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.

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

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.

I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.

I don't really know how to build a career or what to do. But I have the instinct to keep doing different things so people can see different things.

I'm not sure what I want to do - business, law, something else.

I had no clue what I wanted to do. I tried nursing, I tried science, I tried English. I just kept bouncing back and forth.

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

I don't know what kind of career I want to forge for myself. But I want it to be one where I love the work that I've done. And I like to think that I have good instincts.

After college I'd take up a job and I'd experience what it is to take up a job, rather than starting out on my own. I said let me just work for six months so that I know myself a little better.

When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of accidentally ending up in the wrong career.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

I grew up always knowing what I wanted to do, and I'm starting to see how rare that is. All of my friends are just figuring it out. It's a process of elimination until you find what you love.

I'm still in the first baby steps of my career, so I've got so much to learn and so much to figure out.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.