Quotes About Uncertainty

At heart, I would have to say I'm a pantser. I fully embrace the chaos of letting the unintended happen, on life and on the page.

When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the Soviet Union and a historic diffusion of economic and geopolitical power created new influences and established new global power centers - and new threats.

If we leave the European Union it's a risk to our economy - it's a risk to pensioners, it's a risk to homeowners, it's a risk to people in work.

If we leave the European Union, there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets. People will not know what the future looks like.

There is no unique picture of reality.

My films are so new and unique that I don't know where I will end up. Fear keeps me alert. And it's also a part of an excitement.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I'm making 22 minutes; I know there's a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

Eventually the dollar won't always rule. Eventually there will be a challenge to the United States and it will have to be like other countries that are a bit concerned about their currency, and then have to ratchet back in order to - right, in order to sustain. We just haven't reached that point yet.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Maybe the universe will get tired of me.

Usually, when you make a decision in life, unless you have access to parallel universes, you can't truly judge how right that decision was.

I would call universities and community colleges and say, 'I really want to go to college. How do I get to college? What do I do?' And they would say, 'You have to get an application. You have to get letters of recommendation.' It was terrifying. I had no idea what I was doing.

Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in tennis - well, I hope. I mean, it depends, so I don't know yet.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

I do like the idea that tomorrow I might find out that I'm going to be doing something that is completely unknowable today. I think it forces you to live in the moment in a very good way.

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not.

There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully.