Quotes About Uncertainty

If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.

Who can say when subversive play will subvert its own rules? Sometimes a jester's wit might cut too close to the bone and the king would lop off his head. The uncertainty — that straddling of the boundaries of real and unreal — is a source of the peculiar emotional power of subversive play.

Deep down, I was in limbo. I was very active but the pieces weren't coming together.

The hard, cold reality of trading is that every trade has an uncertain outcome.

1. Anything can happen. 2. You don't need to know what is going to happen next in order to make money. 3. There is a random distribution between wins and losses for any given set of variables that define an edge. 4. An edge is nothing more than an indication of a higher probability of one thing happening over another. 5. Every moment in the market is unique.

Unless you learn to completely accept the possibility of an uncertain outcome, you will try either consciously or unconsciously to avoid any possibility you define as painful.

Learning to accept the risk is a trading skill—the most important skill you can learn.

attitudes about being wrong, losing money, missing out, and leaving money on the table.

How do we remain disciplined, focused, and confident in the face of constant uncertainty?

The fact is that if traders really believed that anything could happen at any time, there would be considerably fewer losers and more consistent winners.

Actually, science has determined that a flipped coin is not strictly a fifty-fifty proposition," said Ajay. "Surprisingly, the coin will return to whichever side you're holding faceup in your hand before it is flipped, exactly fifty-one percent of the time.

I hate to wake up one morning and find out she was killed in a rockslide!

a real mystery can't be solved, not completely. It's always just out of reach, like a light around the corner; you might catch a glimpse of what it reveals, feel its warmth, but you can't know the heart of it, not really. That

Life is a series of steps into the unknown.

Getting your emotions under control isn't just a key to being a great leader like Jim. It's also the most important key to reaching other people, especially in times of stress or uncertainty. It's why a cool and controlled hostage negotiator can get through to someone who seems unreachable

But if you always play it safe, it's a safe bet you'll end up sorry.

And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.

We're so far from having any control over what happens to us, it's not even funny. Well, that's not true, actually. It is funny.

Python's super is like a box of chocolates — you never know what you're going to get!

If what's behind that door is so terrible, shouldn't we carry a machete or two? A kitchen knife? An especially sturdy cocktail umbrella?" "There is no weapon on Earth one could wield against such terror!" he moaned. "Oh, I see. Then we should just go in unarmed. Well, fine. Lead the way.

there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

The world would end neither with a bang nor with a whimper, but with a push notification—a buzzing I wasn't even sure I'd felt, but figured I'd better check anyway, to see if it was real, and what it might portend.

to those places where the shadows of the future fall most darkly across the present.

Ambiguity is more convincing than certainty.