Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.

I used to be very rigid because I just wanted to get through it. Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease.

Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.

I always roll with the way things are, so as soon as one decision happens, you just realign and move on and make another decision.

Very quickly, kids take your plan and say, 'Ha!' so you have to learn to be adaptable, or you will be literally miserable.

Every day is different; you never know what to expect, and you have to be ready to pivot on a dime.

I don't really have an average day, and that works for me. If I knew what I had to do ahead of time, I would be so depressed. I love the unexpected. I love change. I love things being thrown at me.

Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.

Flexibility is youth.

As producers, you always have to go with the flow and be ready to embrace change, and drama and whatever happens.

You've got to go with the flow. Whatever happens, you've just got to be ready for it.

Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

We all know how to be a child.

...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.

Take a chance. Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know. And don’t fall in love with Plan A.