Quotes About Uncertainty

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

Our world has us always here. We will be here from now 'til the end of time... maybe not! And that's the scary part!

I don't look further than next year because in our world, anything can happen.

As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.

There's a lot of entrepreneurs out here who are in school, who just don't know what's next, or can't figure out what direction they should go in. And me graduating motivates them.

I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.

Everything that we start is something that we don't know what the outcome is going to be.

When you go to an audition, don't hang on to it because no matter how well you feel it went or how badly, you just never know what the outcome is going to be.

You can't bank on the outcome.

I'm a big believer in doing everything you can and everything in your power to change the outcome. But health is one of those things you can't control, and it's a very scary thing for me.

And what makes Bob Dylan stories interesting is that the only person who can decide their outcome is Bob Dylan, so you never know how they're going to go.

A Brexit with a poor outcome will damage our country and lead to years of further division.

You try to ask the best questions possible, but you don't necessarily control the outcome.

I didn't know basketball was going to be the outcome for me after school.

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.

Being cut off from the outside world is scary.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it's an illusory sense of control.

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.

Luckily, I'm only aware of about two or three concussions that I have had, but there's really no way of telling how many overall.

You never know what kind of person you're going to be faced with, and you never know what kind of obstacles you're going to have to overcome.

You can't take your win for granted. Your next win might be your last win or you might never get to your next win, so I can't imagine not being overcome with joy by winning and never taking winning for granted.

I'd never be overly confident about anything.