Cherrie Moraga Quotes

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.

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

It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

I have had a wide range of projects to choose from. That has saved me from donning a stereotypical image.

Sometimes in football you have to take risks.

I'd rather be very well prepared before I move to heavyweight or light heavyweight. That's according to my own schedule - no one else's.

The sense of not knowing where I came from let me be as smart as I wanted to be.

Football, we pretty much control what we do and how we react, and there are two days we couldn't, on the draft and on the selection for the Hall of Fame.

One of my skills is knowing, 'This is where I'm needed, and this is how I'm needed and where I'm going to be in control and where I'm going to cede control and why.'

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice.

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

Start at B. Yes. No. Yes. No.

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do." "A rule?" "If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule. Whenever I run into a wall I follow that rule, and it always works out. Even if it's hard going at the time.

When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

We don't all agree on everything. I don't agree with myself on everything.

Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back.

I'm fortunate because people can't put a label on me, which I embrace wholeheartedly.