Chip Kidd Quotes

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

There have been times when you doubt yourself. You don't know if you're working on the right things.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

When in doubt, don't.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

In my 20s and early 30s, I was very much a man lost at sea, with very little direction in life, and painfully immature.

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going.

The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.

If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.

Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many Are still mazed among dock and thistle, Seeking the road they should have taken?

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.

I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Have I gone too far?

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

I have reservations about everything I do.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

Does anybody know what I'm doing up here?

When you doubt, abstain.