Quotes About Uncertainty

That doomsday idea is in everybody's subconscious.

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?

You never know whether the subject matter will click with the audience at that particular time. I wish there was a formula, you know, 'That plus that equals success.'

I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

I never try to predict what will happen to any project, ever. There are so many factors. Does the public like the subject matter, the way you handle it?

Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.

Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?'

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest.

What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope.

Too much planning implies you've got it all under control. That's boring, unrealistic, and dangerous.

Life's a roller coaster, and you never know when it's going to take a turn.

certidumbres ideológicas siempre han sabido dominar las contingencias individuales.

The demand to be prepared for all future actions and all situations is the cause of our problems. Every situation is so different; and our attempt to be prepared for all those situations is the one that is responsible for our not being able to deal with situations as they arise.

Nobody knows anything about life and there is NO point in defining life.

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

Ich beklage mich bitter darüber, dass Liebe und Hass so dicht beieinander liegen. Ach, ich beklage es, dass man nie wirklich weiß, ob man gehasst oder geliebt wird

When someone says, That's a good question. You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get.

Worry is today's mice nibbling on tomorrow's cheese

Ninety percent of the things we tend to worry about we have no control over, so why worry about them?

An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.

Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last