Shonda Rhimes Quotes

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back.

Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set.

This isnt the time to make hard and fast decisions, this is a time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere. Fall in love, a lot. Major in philosophy, because theres no way to make a career out of that. Change your mind and change it again, because nothings permanent.

I'll ride the wave, where it takes me!

You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.

I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily fit the form. I've never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting.

Life's more fun when you take the chance that it might end.

I don't really like to know what I'm going to do before I do it.

One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

Don't worry about planning every step of your life.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

The future is open, and I never make plans. As long as it's interesting to me, I try to live my life to the fullest.

I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.