Quotes About Uncertainty

What do you think of all this? Am I a friend or foe - or a little of each? Are the important things black and white, or maybe a little gray?

What if . . . What if I am stupid? ...

This "vision" of the Self is described in the Upanishads as Liberation (moksha). It is a freedom, a release, from doubt, from uncertainty, from the fears attending ignorance, forever. All questions are answered; all desires and causes for sorrow are put to rest; for thereafter, a man knows the secret of all existence. All previous notions of limitation and mortality, all darkness of ignorance, is swept away in the all-illuminating light of Truth:

The point is, of course, that we live in total uncertainty already. This is nothing new. Our tensions are therefore simply our attempt to hold onto something and to create some certainty for ourselves. Yet, in creating something certain, we deny ourselves access to our great inner treasure. We do not see that we are only holding onto rabbit pellets.

When climate goes away as an apocalyptic concern, something else will emerge. No doubt about it.

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

I think a lot of actors, sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, 'Oh my god, I'm never going to work again,' even big huge actors, and so they'll take something thinking that something else will never come along.

Your name or what you've done on the rugby pitch is not going to carry you through for the rest of your life. I realise I'm going to have to eventually do something else, and that does frighten me a little bit.

I knew I heard the doctor correctly. I didn't think he said something else, I didn't think for a second, 'Well maybe he didn't say it.' No, I knew I heard him! But I still couldn't comprehend... in my mind... in my soul... he just said, 'cancer.'

I am an Obamacare agnostic - if it works, as I hope it will for the good of the nation, then it's a great thing. If it doesn't, then that is a disappointing thing, and we need to try something else.

I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.

I didn't vote for Trump. So we've got him. Let's hope for the best. He might do something good.

I am always scared when I start something new. That hasn't changed.

You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new.

I do feel like I get anxiety, and anxious to do something new.

If youre sure that everything youre going to do is going to be good, then whats the point? I used to think of it as just crippling self-doubt. Now I kind of see it as a sign that Im teetering on the edge of something new. Or troubling.

Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.

No-one can say when the unwinding began, when the coil that held America together in its secure and sometime shifting grip first gave way.

Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it's meant to be disaster.

Having a blank slate is sometimes as daunting as it is exciting.

I learned you can't control everything. You've got to roll with the dice sometimes.