James Geary Quotes

Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it.

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

You can't think about what you're going to do. It just gets in the way. You have to be just available for life, otherwise you're not bringing anything to the party. So I don't lie awake thinking about what I'm going to do workwise. There's just too much going on.

We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?

The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind.

Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do.

I don't know where the hell I'll be in 5 years. Maybe I'll be producing movies maybe I'll be on a corner selling apples. I don't know, but I'm having a hell of a lot of fun.

The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

I never want to feel like the way that I see it isthe only way. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's better than whatyou thought the scene could be. You allow room for the possibilities.

Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back.

The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.

Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

A little uncertainty is good for everyone.

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

You’re not going to be a 1.000 hitter all the time. You’re going to be more wrong than right. You just have to correct your errors as quickly, as economically, as possible.

I like the not knowing of what the next job is.

You can't really be too calculated about everything in life.