Arne Glimcher Quotes

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

You dream what you're supposed to do.

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.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Wherever we are in life is where destiny has brought us. It doesn't mean we have to stay there.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

There's a point at which we make our lives, but we also take the path which is given to us.

Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.

'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.

Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different.

Nobody can tell you what your destiny is.

We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don't believe in my fate.

Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.