John O'Donohue Quotes

Instability is never a good idea.

There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.

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.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

There is a feeling that events are in the air; all that is unpredictable is their timing. Perhaps we shall see several more years of peace, but it is equally possible that overnight some tremendous upheaval will happen.

People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.

Anytime you introduce volatility, it is not good for business and not good for travel.

My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.

How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything explodes into a fireball of tiny, unrecognizable fragments, or it all goes skidding sideways, through the guardrail, over the embankment, and down the mountain. This will happen (and probably more than once).

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.

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

The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.

The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know what's around the corner.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.