Quotes About Doubt

Uncertainty is killing this economy.

Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is dangerous in the fundamentalist scientists.

No one likes uncertainty.

There's so much uncertainty within certain players and the organization.

There's three things that are never good for a consumer mindset: uncertainty certainly, concern, and discordance.

Uncertainty helps keep actors on edge.

My students are often asking me, 'What do you think are the most important qualities for a writer?' And one thing I always tells them is that it's helpful to be willing to sit in a space of uncertainty. There are entire years, especially with novels, where you really don't know where the project is going.

Two years of uncertainty is tough for anyone and having everyone call your ability into question is bound to be tough.

Remember The Nothing? It was a gigantic, black storm from 'The Neverending Story' that fed on fear and doubt and sadness and hate and uncertainty and didn't stop until everything was gone. That is what Trump feels like to me.

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

I would be very uncomfortable doing a safe part. It would make me think something is wrong.

I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.

I've been largely undecided about everything for most of my life. I can barely commit to a phone bill... Somewhere along the line it has become my career due to continuing work.

I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.

When I started writing, I said, 'I don't know how to do this. I don't know if it sounds good.' Coming from being an underdog or being told that something wasn't for you over and over repeatedly, it took a lot out of me. It took a lot of my self-confidence.

'I Told You' is for all the people who've been doubted, the underdogs.

It's fine if you doubt me. Underestimate me, because then I'll just impress you, you know.

If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment.

From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.