Lack Direction Quotes

To go nowhere, follow the crowd.

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.

I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction.

I have no particular career agenda.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and I would get distracted. Oh, and I have absolutely no sense of direction at all.

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.

I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

Yeah, it's been pretty gnarly. It's fun. It can only be fun, unless you're really squirmy about that. Honestly, during that guts episode, they didn't tell Andrew and I anything. They just put trenchcoats on us and said, "All right, just stand right here and we're going to put this stuff on you."

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.

I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission.

He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.

I have not the most definite designs on the future.

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess.

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.

I treaded water academically and spent much of my summertime as a camp counselor. It seemed a fun thing to do for a person in no way prepared to commit to a career path.

Unfortunately, hardworking, academically gifted young people are kind of lazy when it comes to determining direction.

Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it's too late.