Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

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've got, like, too many things that I'd like to try and do, so I'm trying to figure out where the natural pull is strongest.

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

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.

A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.

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

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.