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Quotes About Uncertainty

Reality bites. Micron underlines that despite the market run-up recently, there's still no confidence about growth and earnings.
~ Unknown
I do have insecurities. I don't know if you can tell. I'm not brimming with confidence.
~ Andy Kindler
And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.
~ Colum McCann
Part of the problem is that he lacks confidence. He is nervous.
~ Charles Clarke
But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.
~ Ethan Hawke
Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise.
~ Anthony Liccione
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
~ Mark Rothko
I have the courage to be mistaken.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.
~ Jan Smuts
Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.
~ Charlie Cook
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
~ Gail Sheehy
But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.
~ Unknown
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
~ Barry Lopez
You never know where your next scare is coming from. You've just gotta find the courage to face it.
~ Shaggy
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
~ Alan Cohen
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown.
~ Alan Cohen
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
~ George Eliot
The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.
~ James Goldsmith
... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.
~ Cornelia Parker
Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.
~ Douglas Conant
Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it
~ Raymond Chandler