Diane Paulus Quotes

I’m concerned about all areas of uncertainty.

The future is the worst thing about the present.

People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

The unknown is always scary.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

The unknown is always frightening.

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.

I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.

I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.

The unknown is very scary.

My only fear is the unknown.

It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it.

You can be afraid of a lot of things that you don't understand.

The unknown makes people uncomfortable.

I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.

No one likes uncertainty.

I don't know what the future will bring.

People are afraid of what they don't know.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.