Quotes About Uncertainty

But just as the world is opening up, it's closing too, and things reveal their previously unimagined shapes.

And I have no idea if I can do this. She sent a brief, heartfelt prayer to the BDSM gods, wherever they might be. "That

Yet it had only been two weeks, barely a drop in the bucket of her twenty-seven years on the planet. Was that really enough time to make such a momentous decision as would be asked of her tonight? Yet

A suicide attempt can be very much like falling in love. You're not really sure, as you proceed, what is real and what you're making up as you go. You're genuinely uncertain how the whole thing's going to turn out. You want it, but you don't. It seems both inevitable and impossible.

Then-then I'm not going to die? Well, then-crap!-what am I doing here, Anyway?

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.

We don't know whether they're going to eat us or elect us for their tribal deities.

Charlotte. Kate attempted to distract the child from her endless questions and held up the glass tube. This is wulfsyl. I can't be sure it's correct. The girl looked at Kate with excitement, then asked hopefully, Will it stop me from eating someone? Kate looked uncomfortable. We believe that if you take it now, you will n ever have to eat someone. But what if I do? Eat Malcolm, Simon suggested.

Experts' forecasts will always be wrong. It is simply impossible to predict with any useful degree of precision how disruptive products will be used or how large their markets will be. An important corollary is that, because markets for disruptive technologies are unpredictable, companies' initial strategies for entering these markets will generally be wrong.

While some people will argue that you should always have the next five years of your life planned out, others have followed a strategy of just seeing what has come along and will tell you that it's worked well for them.

But in disruptive situations, action must be taken before careful plans are made. Because much less can be known about what markets need or how large they can become, plans must serve a very different purpose: They must be plans for learning rather than plans for implementation.

The strategies and plans that managers formulate for confronting disruptive technological change, therefore, should be plans for learning and discovery rather than plans for execution. This is an important point to understand, because managers who believe they know a market's future will plan and invest very differently from those who recognize the uncertainties of a developing market.

We all are vulnerable to the forces and decisions that have derailed too many.

Is there any good news?' Tesla said. Who ever promised that? Who ever said there'd be good news?

Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

I think babies cry when they're born because they're born with the knowledge of all the terrible shit that's gonna happen to them. That's why I never had kids. Every life is a death sentence. We just forget it later in life, like dreams we lose the second we wake up. Whether we worry about it or not, the shit's still going to fly. The important thing is we're here. At least for now.

And with that comprehension, so unlike the simplifications she'd been ruled by hitherto, she became even more certain that the carpet they carried was a last hope, while he — whose home the Weave contained — seemed increasingly indifferent to its fate, living in the moment and for the moment, touched scarcely at all by hope or regret.

Are you ready for the apocalypse?

No. No, I'm not." Then she said: "I'm somebody else. I just don't know who that somebody else is yet." "Well that's what journeys are for," Diamanda Murkitt said.

This was the substance of every moment, she realized: the body - never certain if the next lungful would be its last - hovering for a tiny time between cessation and continuance. And in that space out of time, between a breath expelled and another drawn, the miraculous was easy, because neither flesh nor reason has laid their edicts there.

La narrativa horror] ci mostra che il controllo che crediamo di avere è puramente illusorio e che ogni momento vacilliamo nel caos e nell'oblio.

Heaven will provide. Or else it won't, and I'll go hungry.