Libba Bray Quotes

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

Any pick you make, or any player you sign, something can go wrong.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

Every job in Hollywood is a risk. You don't know, when you sign a contract, if something is going to pop, you don't know whether this or that network is going to support your show. You just show up and do the best work you can do, gravitate towards the best material, you know, and try to make the right choices. And the rest of it is a roll of the dice.

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

There aren't any answers, only choices

A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.