Quotes About Uncertainty

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

It's necessary for you to work out a way of living that's very strong and very tight and very powerful, otherwise you will not be able to deal with the unknown.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

It's tough to watch a movie you're in - you put everything into it, you want everything to work, and you never know until you see it all together.

The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

You never know what people are going to respond to or want in your work, and you just hope for the best when you design a collection, and try to make it as well-rounded as you can.

I understand professionals have to work when they don't feel like it, and I certainly don't feel like it. So maybe this will put the nail in the coffin for my acting career.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

I'm gonna see how this works out, but I think it's a bad idea.

This is the first time I've done something like this and I'm really hoping this will work.

My work would have the impact of my unreality - my doubts.

People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK.

I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times.

To walk across the street is a risk.

When I got the job with Fox, I said 'God, are you sure?' I know nothing about politics; I've been covering car accidents and street closures and the pothole patrol in my hometown.

I have seen streets where someone said it's all fine, and then it was full of land mines.