Exploring Interests Quotes

When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.

You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Like most people in college, I just wasn't really sure who I was.

I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time.

I started out as a musician, and I ended up as a cartoon.

Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.

I'm very simple. I have to be. I'm not very smart. I start broad, then go deep where I'm interested.

If you don't know what you're passionate about, it's always fun to try new things.

Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.

I did try painting, but it didn't work. I tried to dance, but that didn't work either. And then I tried to act, and it seemed to work.

Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.

There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.

I always saw my peers finding some cool passion, but every time I tried one of those things, it never clicked. I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen.

With Netflix, I browse; I watch documentaries about things I'd never dream of, but I think, 'I might as well.'

Give yourself a chance. Now, everyone can't play basketball. But find something you're interested in.

If I went to any other college, I probably would have been pre-med. But I felt like I had freedom to do what I wanted to do at Harvard.

I think it's very important that you don't start thinking about your life after football when you are 33 or 34. There are many more amazing things in this world, and it's important to think about these things before you retire.

Ive got a lot of life left in me and I want to live it doing things I like to do.

Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction

You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.

There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.

I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it.

If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you’ll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.

I attempt to be who I am and it's fun. At the same time, growing up doing what I'm doing can be a little crazy.