Dierks Bentley Quotes

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me.

Don't overplan your life. Joining Google when I was four months pregnant was a bit of a leap, but sometimes you have to do the right thing for you right now.

Sometimes you have to trust your guts and your instinct and improvise a little.

I meet so many young people who want to plan out their lives and want a recipe. They want me to tell them how to succeed. I didn't follow a recipe. I followed my instincts.

I believe leaving school early was the right decision to make, but at first, I wasn't sure. But my coaches told me to follow my heart and there wouldn't be any regrets, and that's exactly what I did.

What I learned at that moment on the subway 30 years ago, staring at my blank passport, was this: If you have an impulse to do something, and it's not totally irresponsible, why not do it? It might just be the journey you've always needed.

I always tried to play my hunches.

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

Look, I follow my heart. That's the only thing I know how to do. I look at the work, I look for opportunities, and when I feel it's right, I go for it.

I never do things fearing I could do right or wrong. I just do it because I just follow my guts. This is really how I did it for 'Elektra' because I was just amazed by all the comics. I was good for me to get inspired by them, and I just follow my guts for the rest.

Even now, when people ask me, 'Why did you take the job at Uber?' I say because my gut told me to.

Listen to your gut. Are decisions more expansive or narrowing?

You have to go with your instincts.

Every major move in my life was done instinctively.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.

It's good to be slightly ambitious, but I believe one shouldn't be too calculative. It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

I didn't think; I experimented.