Quotes About Uncertainty

Human life is just dangerous, in general. You know, waking up in the morning, you could get hit by a car. Wherever you go, you could choke on a fish bone and die. You never know.

A beautiful morning is not a guarantee for a beautiful afternoon! Just like a man of desert appreciates water, value well whatever beauty you have now!

I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn't even tell the difference.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

Frustration is the mother of risk.

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

What's life without a little risk?

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

Only the insecure strive for security.

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.

If you're not having doubt, you're not pushing the boundaries far enough.

Hope for everything, expect nothing.