David Tudor Quotes

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.

I surrender the idea of having some kind of control over the arc of my career a lot of the time because you never know what tomorrow's going to bring.

I grew up moving around. I went to seven different schools, so I know what it's like to be that new girl and have to not only know who you are but also take that into foreign circumstances and know how to respond.

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

No matter what you thought your plans were, that's not how things are going to work out, and that's the only way you can really, I think, live successfully.

Not every year is going to be the same and you just kind of have to just roll with the punches.

I have no control of life. I have to prepare myself for any situation.

Life's so unpredictable. You never know when the next high or low will strike you. The trick is just to flow with the tide.

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

I am comfortable with being uncomfortable.

You realize there are things you can't control. You can't control a lot of the stuff that happens in your life.

You cannot control everything - you try to control what you can control.

The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.

Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it.

but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

I have had a pretty hardcore crash course on living out of a suitcase. Some people take consistency in their lives for granted. When you have little to none, you discover it's kind of a nice thing.