Navigating the Unknown Quotes

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

There's no mastery to be had. You love the attempt. You don't master a story any more than you master a river. You feel lucky to canoe down it.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.

I think you have to sort of accept that nobody really knows where it's going so there has to be a lot of impulsive kind of attitudes. So it's like a train that's moving and you don't quite know where it's going but you try to steer it in the best way you can realizing that it may go in different places that you had no idea.

Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

I'm always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I'm always after not knowing what I'm doing in those extreme circumstances.

Ancients knew that you need guidance, patronage and protection as you move from one place or state to another, whenever you cross a bridge. You had better know what you are doing when you leave one group or place to join another.

We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.

At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus, and making an announcement, 'So today I'm driving the bus.' And everybody's like, 'What?' And you're like, 'I'm gonna drive the bus.' And they're like, 'But you don't know how to drive the bus.'

We can learn to move into the unknown with the confidence that we have a guiding force within us that is showing us the way.

So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into a lot of things.