Abandon Quote by John James Audubon

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

— Marissa Mayer

Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I…

— Natalie Jeremijenko

Since I was very young I've been fascinated with nature and I actually wanted to be a marine biologist when I was very young.…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I ran to the arts, because the arts are the one thing that would never abandon me.

— Goldie

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

— John James Audubon

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.

— Josephine Hart

I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural…

— Elizabeth Hand

I knew that I liked what I was doing, that it was what I wanted to do for a living, and that the profession…

— Ronda Rousey

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art -…

— Anonymous

I made a conscious decision to take my life and career in a different direction. I started working on a play, and also, by…

— Scott Cohen

No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a…

— Roger Bannister

At college, I wasn't passionate about anything I was studying.

— Jane Levy