Warren Littlefield Quotes

Everyone feels at times like they're missing a page or two out of the handbook that tells you how to live your life.

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 haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

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.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

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.

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

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

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.

Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

I think when you are young and you don't really know what you want in life, you can commit to something and think at the time it is right.

You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.

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.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

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.

When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.