Mark Morris Quotes

Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set.

I like the ability to wake up and say, 'Well, now what are we going to do?'

I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead.

Every day brings new choices.

I'm not such a big fan of having a linear answer to things.

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

I always say don't make plans, make options.

The more choices you have--the more options you have, the better off you are.

It is most difficult to deal with. There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

The old theory was, that the least possible should be left to the choice of the individual agent; that all he had to do should, as far as practicable, be laid down for him by superior wisdom. Left to himself he was sure to go wrong.

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

When you empower people you sign up for a life of uncertainty and change.

… a world without certainty can be richer, in all senses of the word, than a world with false convictions.

Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

I go all over the place. I do like the ability to go around the company at different levels to find the people that have the actual answers to the question.

One philosophy I have at AngelList is I would rather have someone working on the wrong thing and do it their way and be motivated, than working on the right thing and do it my way and not be motivated.

I can play at four or I can play at five and I think I feel more comfortable because I'm flexible to do whatever I want to do.

There's merit in ministers being just open with the public about the inherent complexity and uncertainty of many of the decisions that they are taking.

The route may, say, go across the field for 22 yards. I know I have to be there, but how I get there is where they allow me to be creative.