Greg Giraldo Quotes

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

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).

I did find my direction at an early age.

It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

I might not agree with myself in a year.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.

You have to figure out 'who am I?' 'What do I want to do?' 'What do I want to say?'

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

You must have an opinion about yourself, some kind of meaning to yourself, a purpose, if you are really going to learn anything or develop into that which you desire to be.

I knew I was ambitious; I knew I was passionate and that I wanted to change the world in some shape or form, but I had no idea what that might look like.

I'm constantly trying to figure out my life and what's next. I'm never satisfied with what I have.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.

Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life.

I think the biggest obstacle I still have to overcome is myself, and just kind of struggling every day with what to do with the work and where to go next.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.