Rachel Maddow Quotes

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen.

The worst question is, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I don't know. Variety is the spice of life. That's the best way to describe it.

When you hit 30, it's that time of self-reflection. Some people are a success. Some people feel like they haven't achieved what they wanted to. Some people are married, some have kids, some are still single.

I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

My life has never been a part of a big plan. It's more of an unfolding adventure.

I didn't really have a road map ever.

You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.

When I plan ahead, I don't just plan what I'm doing tomorrow. I also plan what I'm doing five years from now.

Until I figure out what I'm going to do when I grow up, I'm not going to be grown up.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult.

As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.

I don't know what I could say specifically, except that everything I've learned as a kid of course must somehow play into what I do now. I think when everything kind of drifted away, I had to go out into the world and learn how to emotionally be okay with all that, which to me was a decades-long process. But also I happened to find my way in life, to find a living, to figure out what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think all of that now probably helps me. It probably gives me more life experience to draw from.

I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.

I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.

I have a lot more things to talk about now because I'm an adult.

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.

I just think that life is a constant experiment.

I'll never know - I'll never profess to know - anything anywhere near it all. It'sall a journey - life, work, and relationships. Mistakes and learning, and learning not to make your mistakes again.

Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.

Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.