Joey Dunlop Quotes

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

A leader who is confused or confusing causes too much anxiety, and a leader who is too controlling is revealing more insecurity and a lack of leadership.

Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back.

Slight changes simply make a blur.

It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance.

I'm not saying I know everything about love. I'm still trying to figure out girls... I don't think we'll ever totally figure out girls.

I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.

All I ever wanted was to know what to do.

I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.

Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.

We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don’t know what to do.

Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.

A person sometimes can't make a decision unless they know what decision to make.

Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

What's your heart telling you to do? I don't know.' Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.

What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else. He's just fine. He gets overwhelmed now and then, and he doesn't know how to say what he feels or means, so he cries and runs off a little, trying to find out where to go, for God's sake. Where can you go?

That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?

And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from their life. One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.