Quotes About Uncertainty

Checking shows weakness, and is best used when you think that a bet on fourth street will prompt a fold, but a check, showing weakness or uncertainty, will prompt a call on fifth street when your bet gets interpreted as a steal attempt. This strategy is also best used when you have position on your opponent

All day long I've been telling myself it's only a merry-go-round. Some people fall off quicker than others. No big mystery.

The uncertainty and lack of clarity about the potential outcome is the root of the problem. I provide clarity by asking a simple question, "Out of all these tasks you do every day, how many of these tasks are moving you toward the outcome you want?

I'm worried," I tell him. "This place seems out of control." Harvey says everything I'm describing about HubSpot is absolutely normal. "You know what the big secret of all these start-ups is?" he tells me. "The big secret is that nobody knows what they're doing. When it comes to management, it's amateur hour. They just make it up as they go along.

She left for the doctor's one morning thinking she had a stomach bug and returned a cancer patient.

Research shows that if you are under thirty years old, there is a 90 percent chance you will be fired sometime in the next twenty years.

Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Wars happen because states are uncertain about each others' intentions and capabilities, and because states cannot sign binding agreements by which they agree not to attack each other.

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

What if we had walked a different path one day, would some small incident have nudged us elsewhere the way a pebble tossed into a brook might change the course a hundred miles downstream?

Why does that evening's memory Return with this night's storm - A party twenty years ago, Its disappointments warm? There are so many MIGHT-HAVE-BEENS WHAT-IFS that won't stay buried Other cities, other jobs Strangers we might have married And memory insists on pining For places it never went, As if life would be happier Just by being different

She wasn't entirely sure if she was being rescued or kidnapped.

The correct answer to almost any question in economics is: It depends.

Don't think too much. There'll be time to think later. Analysis won't help. You're chiseling now. You're passing your hands over the wood. Now the page is no longer blank. There's something there. It isn't your business yet to know whether it's going to be prize-worthy someday, or whether it will gather dust in a drawer. Now you've carved the tree. You've chiseled the marbled. You've begun.

Luz's manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn't that she made things up, strictly speaking--only that facts were merely a point of departure for her.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks." -

I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.

Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.

I asked, "How do you think that would work?" The major said, "If they didn't get any Execute message? Oh, I think they'd come back." Pause. "Most of them." The last three words didn't register with me right away because before they were out of his mouth, my head was exploding. I kept my face blank but a voice inside was screaming, "Think? You think they'd come back?!

What is the conceptual tie that binds anxiety and planning? Both, of course, are intimately connected to thinking about the future.

we sometimes imagine dark futures just to scare our own pants off.