Donna Karan Quotes

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

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

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

I believe there's fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.

I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me.

I think being in the city is the perfect way to figure out what I want to do.

I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.

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.

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.

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.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

You dream what you're supposed to do.

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

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.

The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.

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 don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

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