Quotes About Uncertainty

The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.

Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless.

On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive

You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

I don't know. I can't tell the future I just work there.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

I'm not a huge fan of my work.

You don't know where a sport can take you, so I want to make sure that I have an education behind me in case things don't work out.

I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don't know how it's going to end.

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

The world will never know you because you were not bold and did not take a risk

Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one's nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake!

If you don't leave your job, your job will leave you someday

Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus.

Don't be too scared to calculate risks

Employment will fail you someday

If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties . . . and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks . . .