"Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where……" — Oliver Burkeman
"Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting."
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11 Quotes by Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman has 11 quotes on this site.
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...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and…
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Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting…
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Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem,…
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True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid…
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The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant…
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Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best,…
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Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you…
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The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number…
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The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable,
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It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people…
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'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
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I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter…
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Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual…
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a…
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
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You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.
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Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do…
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