Brad Feld Quotes

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

I don't like change.

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.

I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

I like having a routine, because everything else... is so unpredictable.

It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

I think in my life I have so many things that changed so much with work and my career, and I don't really get to plan out a lot of my days. So when I have something that's familiar - just something that's there - I don't really like to switch it up.

I guess I crave stability.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

No one can tell you what to do or push you around. It gives you a secure feeling. That's the best thing about money.

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

Those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition.

Powerful imaginations are conservative.

Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

When I'm home, I go back to the same routine that I've had since I was a kid.

I don't like change that much.

I just want to keep my normal life for as long as possible.

I think that our comfort is in our history.

I always miss any kind of constant, especially now that I'm a film-maker who travels all the time. I'm always tempted to go to Catholic churches, although I despise the religion. But you want to go there just because it's the one thing in your life that's never changed.

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.