Quotes About Uncertainty

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.

I have a fear of failure.

The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.

Predictability can lead to failure.

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.

Not taking risks ultimately leads to failure.

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.

Overcast does not always forecast rain neither does difficulty always forecast failure.

Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.