Dan Rosensweig Quotes

Undergrad, for me, in college was really about, you know, how do I become a professional. But business school, for me, was how do I become the person that I'm meant to be.

The whole point of college is to find yourself, to figure out things before you go into the real world.

I didn't know what I wanted to do until I was 40. Seriously.

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

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something.

I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn't what I want to do.' I was like, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to go out and make something of myself, and I have no clue what that is.'

I don't know if ISU helped me become what I am, but I know that if I hadn't gone there, I wouldn't be what I am today.

I've always wanted better for myself; I just didn't know what route I was going to take.

I personally can barely remember what I was like before I came to college, what made me happy or worried or confident. I don't remember what I expected in my future, except that 'President of the United States' was about halfway up the ladder.

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

I don't know what my daughter will become.

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.

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 needed the time to go to college and spend years with people who aren't in the business and become a person on my own in order to be the person that I am and the performer that I am. I wouldn't give that up to be in blockbusters or have more money.

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.

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I never wanted to go to university: books seemed to have all the answers, and the questions, too. I went to work for Jean Muir as her in-house model. Miss Muir - as she will always be to me - was interested in everything.

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

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

My life and career is my own adventure.

If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'

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