Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes

It's very humbling to move around from team to team. It shows how fast you can be out of the loop.

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.

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

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

You can't get too comfortable and relax, because your world can flip overnight.

A guy like me, it's probably pretty hard for somebody to pinpoint what position to have me do, where to put me all the time.

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

I am a feather for each wind that blows

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

I might not agree with myself in a year.

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

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 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.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

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.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.

People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?

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.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.