Sandra Oh Quotes

For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.

The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

I don't know what's next, and I like that idea. It's a little scary, but it's also beautiful. When you're open, anything can come your way.

Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.

The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

Be willing to move forward and find out what happens next.

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?

Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.

There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

Life is a risk.

I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.

The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.

Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

I am always scared when I start something new. That hasn't changed.

Get yourself out. Be brave. Don't leave before you're ready, because you should know that you tried everything. So there's a conviction and a confidence when you step away from something that may or may not be conducive to your life. I think if you run away too quickly, you're going to have that "Oh God, did I try everything?" feeling. Try everything. Make it work. Do everything you can. If it's not working, then know when the signal is and move on. Change. Try something different.

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

You have to move forward. It's constantly changing. Everything changes and everything falls apart. You have to be nimble and on your toes and accessible to it all. Not everyone is on board with this.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.