Where I Am Now Quotes

#1. Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

Rose Byrne

#2. No one had ever made it big from my town until I was able to make it to the NFL and now the big screen. The journey from my town to where I am now has taught me how to be resilient and fearless, and for that I will forever be grateful.

Thomas Jones

#3. My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.

Larry Bird

#4. I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.

Parker Stevenson

#5. I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor,' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now.

Leona Lewis

#6. I know that if things hadn't gone the way they did then I wouldn't be where I am now.

Taylor Swift

#7. I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way.

Della Reese

#8. I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe.

Iris Apfel

#9. I'm a guy who has always been a late bloomer on every level. I've always wanted to get into the league as a kid. Who would have thought during my senior year at college that I would be where I am now? It's been a lot of hard work and never stopping.

Kevin Martin

#10. Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.

Jim Valvano

#11. He's the light that guided me to where I am now, out of the darkness, out of despair.

Faith Sullivan

#12. Back in college, when I got kicked out of school, I was still in school, I'd just written the song that got me my record deal. If I hadn't gotten kicked out of school I wouldn't be where I am now. Three months after that, I got my record deal and the rest is history.

Brian McKnight

#13. I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.

William Monahan

#14. At school I got harassed so badly for being too tall, too thin, too pale - too everything that has gotten me where I am now, which is quite ironic.

Karen Elson

#15. And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident.

Rick Allen

#16. I feel like I'm moving from a world where I was creating fantasies that weren't real inside - and very often feeling really dissatisfied - to now living in reality for the first time in my life since I was a kid, and learning to appreciate where I am now while actually sitting with that reality.

Damien Rice

#17. If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.

Kate Mara

#18. I always tell myself, 'Keep on fighting.' I wasn't always a good diver - I had to work my way up to where I am now. If I had given up, I wouldn't be in the position I am today. I would have so many regrets.

Christina Loukas

#19. I'm so grateful for where I am now, but I think I'm more grateful because it's been so hard-won; I haven't given up, and I've had plenty of reasons to give up.

Geneva Carr

#20. I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.

Lena Headey

#21. I'm still learning. Hopefully I can keep getting better, and not stop where I am now.

Tim Duncan

#22. I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

Mark Cuban

#23. If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now.I never thought i'd be where I am now, but the fact that I am is pretty cool.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#24. I am just surprised to be doing anything at my age actually. When you think of where I am now and where I've come from, I am very pleased and very grateful to be standing up and delivering Julian's great lines.

Maggie Smith

#25. I'm a God-fearing man, and I know the only reason why I am here going from poverty to where I am now is God has His hand on my life. I tell people, 'I didn't choose acting; God chose me to act.'

Ving Rhames

#26. The last thinkg I want to do is spend the rest of my life pretending to be 17 or 27. Now it's pretty interesting to me to see what can be said in the point of view of where I am now.

Tristen Gaspadarek

#27. When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

Tabitha Soren

#28. I've been in some beautiful places, but the prettiest sight is flying back to New Orleans. Being able to look down and say, 'I know where I am now.'

Aaron Neville

#29. I won't tell you why I'm at this level where I am now. You underestimate and now you want to know... (FIND ALONE THE ANSWER FUCKING BIATCH!)

Deyth Banger

#30. If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.

Anonymous

#31. I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.

Jackie Evancho

#32. But I have to say, probably when I'm about 30 I'll be pretty, not settled, but happy with what I've accomplished so far. I'm happy where I am now.

Amy Smart

#33. When I opted to work with you, I didn't expect to live a danger-free life full of roses. It was my choice that took me to where I am now.

Shaine Lake

#34. I think men can really get in the way when you are trying to sort your life out and get on with it. Because they just take up so much space. I'm not under any illusions that I could have been where I am now in literary terms if I had been heterosexual. I really believe I would not be.

Jeanette Winterson

#35. For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

Fernando Alonso

#36. It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.

Faye Dunaway

#37. The truest form of love is where you are able to put your own needs aside to do what is best for the one you love. If you could know where I am now and if you love as you say you do, you would never ever wish me back from the love and the comfort and the bliss of where I am and where I wait for you.

Kate McGahan

#38. In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about.

Don Lemon

#39. If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.

Lou Ferrigno

#40. I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.

Valerie June

#41. But I am doing that thing I always do-the obsessing about what I don't have, the ignoring where I am now.

Amy Reed

#42. I am grateful to life. And also to the people who have brought me here. Without them, I could not be where I am now.

Novak Djokovic

#43. It's never one solitary event that has changed my life. It's a bunch of little pieces that built and built up to where I am now.

Tinashe

#44. I know where I come from, where I am now and where the wish to go.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#45. No need for false hope...

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So far where I am now... is nowhere done... just nowhere....

Deyth Banger

#46. Each place is the right place
the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)

Ravi Ravindra

#47. I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.

Joan Rivers

#48. Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.

Jordin Sparks

#49. God, I want to dream again, take me where I've never been! I want to go there, this time I'm not scared! Now I am unbreakable, it's unmistakable! No one can touch me, nothing can stop me!

Fireflight

#50. Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

Jackee Harry

#51. I'm a pretty driven person, and I've accepted that about myself. For a long time, I was like, 'I'm a very laid-back person, I grew up in the country,' but I'm also very driven, otherwise I wouldn't be where I am right now.

Miranda Kerr

#52. George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with

Justin Spring

#53. I thought it was who I was with or where I was that defined me in some way. I realize now that I decide who I am, no matter the company I keep or the place I am.

Gwendolyn Heasley

#54. I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

Sarah Brightman

#55. I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

Amy Grant

#56. I am so sorry for you, Leslie.' She said it like she really meant it. But not like she was completely surprised. 'And for him. Because he's lost you now.' This last part undid me. Despite her cruel criticism of me over the years, from where she sat, I was anyone and everyone's prize.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#57. If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that. Now I tell people.

Carlos Mencia

#58. You can make changes in your life and you can say, "I'm going to be a better parent next year than I am right now," or, "I'm going to take an extra step in my career and not just be satisfied where I am." So it has a lot to do with our will, but also we have to work as well.

Joel Osteen

#59. Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Toni Morrison

#60. I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I'm looking around now and I'm like, Where am I running?

Justin Timberlake

#61. I am now at the age where I can withdraw a 25 per cent tax-free lump sum. I do not put in a set amount because my earnings are a moveable feast.

Anthea Turner

#62. Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?

Anais Nin

#63. I don't know where I am, Evan."
"I'm seeing red everywhere. It's just ... everywhere."
"I am underwater right now. You don't understand. I'm underwater."
"I need a gun."
"Evan? I need-

David Levithan

#64. I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.

Robert E.Lee

#65. I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

Courteney Cox

#66. Now that I am an adult, I'm very comfortable in my own skin. I'm a lot more settled down and I learnt to just be comfortable with where I'm at, rather than always wanting to be somewhere ahead of where I am.

Brooke Fraser

#67. Whither should I fly? I have done no harm. But I remember now (70) I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime

William Shakespeare

#68. My rule is simply "love what you do". That certainly has brought me to the place I where am at right now. It really has been with the work.

Giancarlo Esposito

#69. Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph

#70. This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

Peter Greenaway

#71. SCORPIUS: The what? The where? Look, I am as excited as you are to be a rebel for the first time in my life - yay - train roof - fun - but now - oh.

J.K. Rowling

#72. Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.

Jim McKay

#73. You promise?"
"I cross the place where my heart used to be and wish to be even more deader than I am now.

Derek Landy

#74. I have to get back to the hotel. But I don't know the way. I always rely on Shouji so I didn't notice where we were going. Nut I came to this point. without realising my attitude and actions. It's like I am slowing falling into a valley. I wonder where I'm standing now.

Ai Yazawa

#75. I am a gardener
I plant hearts
I have no other knowledge
No language now
Close the language door and
open the heart portal
Where everything connects as ONE.

Gabriel Iqbal

#76. I don't need to be any place else, because the music takes me to the only place I want to be right now. To the place where I am and have always been wholly me, the only church I've ever belonged to, the only place I've ever prayed.

Daisy Whitney

#77. I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's to the point now where I look back when pulling into the spot only as a formality.

Willie Geist

#78. Gazing at the faces of the horses and the people, at this boundless stream of life raised up by the power of my will and now hurtling into nowhere across the sunset-crimson steppe, I often think: where am I in this flux? GHENGIS KHAN

Victor Pelevin

#79. I am excited for the future of the industry, because we're at that point now where digital is becoming pertinent to release and distribution strategy versus releasing on cable or anywhere else.

Felicia Day

#80. Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It's only art that has carried me through, given me faith in my own existence. But now I am approaching a point in my life where I desire more ...

Tracey Emin

#81. I like to read a couple books at once. I was reading the Princess Diana book. I'm reading a book about Chicago and the mob. Right now I'm also reading the Bible, beginning to end. I'm very religious. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

Heidi Montag

#82. I'm sorry for hurting you. I know I did. I'm most likely dead now, and I guess if there's any kind of fairness in the afterlife I'm probably in hell getting roasted. But if that's where I am, I want you to know, I still love you. Always did. Love, Caine

Michael Grant

#83. Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that in college. Now, I'm having to learn to be patient and be where I am.

Danielle Brooks

#84. My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.

Michael Lewis

#85. The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

Robert Anton Wilson

#86. I want to follow him. I want to go where his show is and just lie on the sidewalk outside so he can trip over me. Okay? That's how pathetic I am now. You should be thrilled. I

Maureen Johnson

#87. Ive been waiting for this moment,
The one where looking back doesn't seem fascinating anymore & looking forward doesn't seem to be the greatest seek, I am so darn content with creating and living right now that there honestly isn't any room left for the ordinary.

Nikki Rowe

#88. I am sorry. I lost something there. Like a path I was walking that dead-ended, and now I am alone and lost in the forest, and I am here and I do not know where here is any more.

Neil Gaiman

#89. You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

John Guare

#90. I always remind my kids that hard work pays off. That's how I got to where I am right now because of sacrifice and the work I put into it.

Dwyane Wade

#91. And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits.

Czeslaw Milosz

#92. He was still a boy, but there was steel in him. The eyes into which she looked now were cool, but they were eyes strangely mature. I reckon I'll stay, ma'am. Down where I come from, we don't back water for no man.

Louis L'Amour

#93. When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great at something, or go crazy and become a total failure. There is no middle ground where I come from, and I am only now beginning to get a sense that there is a middle ground at all.

Marya Hornbacher

#94. If you fall into the category of people who want to make a great use of their existence, you need to ask yourself these two questions; "what am I doing now"?; "Where is it taking me to?

Israelmore Ayivor

#95. As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

Christian Slater

#96. I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.

Jack Nicholson

#97. I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.

Rick Moody

#98. But there is a place where people like me live and love while fretting constantly about their own mortality and the fate of the universe. I know who I am now: I am a New Yorker.

Mara Wilson

#99. I am ashes where I once was fire, And the bard in my bosom is dead; What I loved I now merely admire, And my heart is as grey as my head.

William Shakespeare

#100. Now Livie's gone west, out of the dust, on her way to California, where the wind takes a rest sometimes. And I'm wondering what kind of friend I am, wanting my feet on that road to another place,instead of Livie's.

Karen Hesse