Quotes About Uncertainty

In my youth I looked for answers with a terrible urgency. I craved certainty. Then I started telling myself that, in the end, we have to accept there's a vast amount we just don't know.

In television, everything is possible and nothing is sure.

These are the dilemmas for cancer patients. Who and what to believe? A particular treatment is not foolproof, or as many medical experts remind us, is not math, with a fixed and certain outcome.

No substantial change has ever been managed without risk.

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarrassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?

Risk management is not the same as worrying about your project.

Risk management is the explicit quantitative declaration of uncertainty. But in some corporate cultures, people aren't allowed to be uncertain. They're allowed to be wrong, but they can't be uncertain. They are obliged to look their bosses and clients in the face and lie rather than show uncertainty about outcomes. Uncertainty is for wimps.

In football, you never know what can happen tomorrow. This is the elite, and you have to be ready for any situation that can occur.

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.

There's too much we don't know about the ocean to make me feel comfortable around it.

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.'

At the time, nobody knew what it was. It had no name. When everything else is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity.

When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.

One of the secrets to happiness is knowing when to take chances. If you don't, the odds are that you will fall into a rut.

I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.

It's a scary thing when a team don't know who to match up to, whose night it's going to be on the offensive end.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.

After those first two BAFTAs, I didn't really get offered anything, which makes you think, 'Oh, no!' And, after I finished the second series of 'Broadchurch,' nothing came up for six months, which really is a long time, and I got a bit panicky.

I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.

I wasn't sure if I would survive in the film industry in the beginning. So, I gave myself six months to see if things fall in place, and luckily, soon after I moved to Mumbai, I began getting modelling and acting offers.

My first film by itself was very daunting and though I had offers, I didn't take them because I wasn't too sure.