Daniel Berrigan Quotes

If there's a way into a situation, there's a way out.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

Life is good. Or at least, it's always interesting.

Life's supposed to be an adventure, a surprise!

Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities of where else I can be in the world, in a good way!

I never rule anything out, you never know what's to come.

I grew up military but have met very few women that have a mission plan for when things don't work out. I attack everything like that.

I know I made plenty of mistakes in my tenure. But one of the things that you learn is to be very careful and to protect yourself down the road a little bit, which is to say you've got to think ahead and think where is the story going to go? What are all the possible outcomes? And how do I protect the president from unexpected twists and turns in the road?

I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power.

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

You never know. Say the arena's actually a giant cake-" "Say we move on," I broke in.

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.

I am going to seek a grand perhaps.

Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.