Quotes About Uncertainty

Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out

I do not know. [summarising his life's work]

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.

I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

Because I don't work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock.

I have learnt not to make plans in life, because a lot of time you make a plan that is not going to work for you

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.

I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.