John Adams Quotes

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

No one likes uncertainty.

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

There's so much uncertainty within certain players and the organization.

Change is uncomfortable. Write that down.

Change is rarely comfortable.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.

Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

Most want progress but hardly anybody wants change. Change is almost always a little traumatic.

Change takes courage.

I’m concerned about all areas of uncertainty.

When something is new, it creates a new kind of fear.