Ryan Fitzpatrick Quotes

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

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.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

Relative to most people I know, I am comfortable just about anywhere. I went to 20 schools before the 8th grade because my father couldn't hold a job. We moved every six months. I had to adjust.

It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

I was raised in an environment where chaos was the norm, so I was at my best in chaos.

I'm a guy that, when there's something rolling out there, the predetermined rotations might go right in the garbage can.

It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is. I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.

It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide.

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change.

I don't plan, because everything goes against my plans anyways. There's absolutely no point in planning anything. I'm just enjoying the moment. I'm meeting with a whole lot of people - casting directors, directors, agents. I have things going on everywhere, but I have no solid plans.

It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a good way. You just never know what's going to happen. And things change constantly. But there's always opportunities for new work, so you just have to enjoy the job that you're on while you're on it because it doesn't last forever.

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need.

I have to tell you, every day is a roller coaster.

In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.