Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

When in doubt, do something.

History is only a feeble light, for the rubrics were meant to answer future problems unimagined and unimaginable

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

When in doubt, punt!

I don't know the future.

Every journey starts with fear.

I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

I'm not going to sit here and bash the manager, we have to regroup.

I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not.

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided. More often it is a crisis invited.

If the worst comes to the worst, gentlemen, I shall know what to do.

Denial is a not a long term strategy.

It’s hard letting go in the past when there are no firm handholds in the future.

The great problem now is that we don’t know what to do.

You can never predict what problems a President will face.

The problems of a period are the existential crises of what can be but hasn't yet been resolved; and regardless of how seriously we take that word 'resolved,' if there were not some new possibility, there would be no crisis - there would be only despair.

I don't know exactly what's next. But I do know now that it's something rather than nothing.

I've learned how to function in chaos.

I've got to that stage in my life where, difficult decisions I don't have to make, I push them into the future until such time I have to make them.

When you can look at failure and say, 'What is the worst case scenario,' it's not as bad as it seems.

As producers, you always have to go with the flow and be ready to embrace change, and drama and whatever happens.

You can't go through life thinking about what could go wrong.