Tracy Kidder Quotes

In life, anything can happen, and I do not close the door to anything.

For me, I have never walked a path that has been carefully crafted or charted. I have gone into territory unknown on many an occasion.

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

I know for sure that nothing is guaranteed. Life always changes. I know for sure that I'm open to all possibilities always... let's just say my life is never boring.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

Say yes to everything.

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.

Never in my life have I thought, 'What's next?' It's just like 'Finding Dory.' Things just happen.

I don't have my life mapped out. I am happy to see where it goes, and then, hopefully, I won't be disappointed.

I feel very open to trying new things.

I never rule anything out, you never know what's to come.

I like things to be unpredictable.

The important thing is not to know where you are going, to be open to accidents. That's what keeps it fun.

I tend to go with the flow and that flow can end up in great places or not so great places.

I'll be happy to go anywhere that will take me, honestly.

Let's just start and see what happens.

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

I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it might help me get a little closer to where I wanted to be . . .

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.