Lindsay Davenport Quotes

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

I think I get credit for my timing because most of the time, I really have no idea where I'm going with it.

The thing to do when you're feeling ambivalent is to wait.

The hardest thing about free agency is sometimes you want it right away but you have to wait and see see what happens.

One thing I've learned as an actor as well as a producer is to trust my own instinct. When I first started acting I would sometimes have ideas about certain things, whether it's a scene, or a character or certain dialogue, that wouldn't be followed. I was never in a position to have the power to press the matter. Sometimes it wasn't even about my character. But I'd watch the movie afterwards and think I was right.

I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.

I think as with everything in life you've got to follow your gut. If you believe it wholeheartedly, then it's not going to feel like you're kind of pasting on an idea.

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.

It's easy to judge, to think we know for certain the right thing to do. Sometimes, it just isn't so clear.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

Well, I've been waiting, I was sure we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for I think it's time to board another Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.

A friend told me to listen to my heart. Another friend told me to listen to my gut. Maybe I need an autopsy, because right now my colon is kind of iffy.

I think when you're reaching outside of something you're comfortable doing, you're just heading towards a light. I don't think you stop to justify it.

The more you have to talk yourself into it, the more it’s not ‘it’.

If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.

One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman