Quotes About Uncertainty

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that we can react quickly to the needs of our clients and our market place.

Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.