Posts by Ann Ruane
Uncertainty Q&Q
The future is uncertain… but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.
~ Ilya Prigogine
Uncomfortable
Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Human Spirit
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
~ Bernard Beckett
Stars
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Powers
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
~ Erich Fromm
Uncertainty
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.
~ John Allen Paulos
Uncertainty Mantra
When I choose to sit with uncertainty, I gain clarity.
~Ann Ruane
Pressure Q&Q
True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure – the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character’s essential nature.
― Robert McKee
Pressure
Don’t ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.
~ Joe Maddon
Social Pressures
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
~ John W. Gardner