Career and Wonderland

Conversation between Alice and the Cheshire Cat in Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson):

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." said the Cat.

"I don't much care where." said Alice.

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go." said the Cat.

"As long as I get somewhere." Alice added as an explanation.

"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."

"It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want." (Aristotle)

"Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it." (Anonymous)

"Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day." (Bertrand Russell)

"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going." (David Starr Jordan)

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." (Henry David Thoreau)

"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered." (Robert Fulghum)

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." (Ethiopian proverb)

"Send a boy where he wants to go and you will see his best pace." (Nigerian Proverb)

"Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten." (Natasha Bedingfield)

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." (Chinese proverb)

"A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence." (Chinese proverb)

Take charge. You are in control. Make your career, don't just let it go 'somewhere', or you will get there too. The investment in planning wisely and well, which allows you to target your limited time and energy, nearly always pays off in the end.
Good luck!