Quotes About Uncertainty

It would be like climbing up a winding mountain where you can't really see much ahead, then finally realizing you're at the top.

I keep living as a committed Christian, even on the days when I don't feel like one. Even on the days when the agnostic side of the faith spectrum looks pretty inviting, even on the days when doubt takes hold and shakes me to the core, I keep moving. I keep living as if the sun will rise, as if I'll survive the waters of baptism, as if Jesus will indeed carry me safely across the falls.

I don't assume anything about people, and I sure don't trust 'em. Just when you think you know a guy, he turns out to be a liar, a fraud, or a backstabber.

The future is a major abstraction, riddled with a million vibrating variables you can't control. The best information you'll ever have about a decision is at the moment of execution.

When companies are in the red, employees worry about their jobs. People aren't stupid—they know that burning cash means the good times won't last. The possibility of layoffs is always nagging. CVs are always at the ready.

Always keeping the door open to radical changes only invites chaos and second-guessing.

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Why don't we just call plans what they really are: guesses. Start referring to your business plans as business guesses, your financial plans as financial guesses, and your strategic plans as strategic guesses. Now you can stop worrying about them as much. They just aren't worth the stress.

Unless you're a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

Why don't we just call plans what they really are: guesses.

Trabajar sin un plan puede dar miedo. Pero seguir a pies juntillas un plan que nada tiene que ver con la realidad da aún más miedo.

Start referring to your business plans as business guesses

Until people are able to figure out how to deal with the natural tendency to hesitate and drag their feet because of their fear of the unknown, no meaningful reinvention will occur.

Succeeding in stocks comes down to accepting that nobody can know the future, and then adopting an investment system that wins by reacting rather than predicting.

What gives value to travel is fear.

He (Antonio Machado) was old, weary and ill, and he no longer believed in Franco's defeat. He wrote 'This is the end; any day now Barcelona will fall. For the strategists, for the politicians, for the historians, it is all clear: we have lost the war. But in human terms, I am not so sure. Perhaps we have won.

Las personas tal vez consistimos, en suma, tanto en lo que somos como en lo que hemos sido, tanto en lo comprobable y cuantificable y recordable como en lo más incierto, indeciso y difuminado, quizá estamos hechos en igual medida de lo que fue y de lo que pudo ser.

Todo el mundo obliga a todo el mundo, no tanto a hacer lo que no quiere, sino más bien lo que no sabe si quiere, porque casi nadie sabe lo que no quiere, y menos aún, lo que quiere

Una pareja que depende y vive de sus obstáculos es una pareja que se deshará cuando ya no los haya".

no se sabe muy bien qué hacer con los muertos

No es fácil saber por qué se mata la gente, ni los más próximos, todo el mundo está trastornado, todo el mundo las pasa putas, a veces sin causa y casi siempre en secreto, la gente vuelve cara contra la almohada y espera al día siguiente. De pronto no esperan.

Uma pessoa nunca sabe se o que lhe dizem é verdade, nunca há a certeza de nada que não venha de nós mesmos.

Cuántos ratos eternos tendrá en que no sabrá cómo ayudar a avanzar el tiempo'

Y que la sospecha permanente a su vez no es tolerable, porque resulta extenuante observarse sin cesar a uno mismo y a los otros, sobre todo al otro, al más cercano, y comparar con los recuerdos que jamás son fiables.