Mary Schmich Quotes

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.

One of the greatest struggles of becoming an adult is figuring out what you want to do and what makes you happy. The courageous thing is to stick with it and see it through and see if you were correct.

The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.

The younger you are, the more experimenting you should do. But once you've found what you were created to do, stick with it.

I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

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

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

Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don't have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.

It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

I was a confused young man. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

I just don't spend maybe enough time figuring out my place. Maybe I do in the world, but not so much in Hollywood.

I got to a point when I was 20 that I dropped out of university because I felt I didn't have any purpose, and I wanted to find a fire in me.

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

I think it's okay not knowing what you want to become.

I knew from a young age what I wanted to do, but that's not the case for everyone. Some go through different paths to reach their destination.

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.

Some people will know exactly what they want to do at a very young age, but the odds are low. I feel like people in their early- to mid-20s are very earnest. They’re very serious, and they want to feel like they’ve accomplished a lot at a very young age rather than just trying to figure stuff out. So I try to push them toward a more experimental attitude.

I don't feel rushed to figure myself out. I have all the time in the world to do that.