Quotes About Uncertainty

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.

A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no idea where you're going. It can be terrifying, but it can also be the adventure of a lifetime.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

Of course it's not simple. Who said it was simple? But you know what? Lots of loose ends don't ever get tied up. Play the hand you're dealt. Move on.

His eyes became wild, searching for reassurance in the faces surrounding him. Instead he saw the opposite—awful affirmation of his fears.

Cause he got everything to lose.

Developmental evaluation likewise centers on situational sensitivity, responsiveness, and adaptation, and is an approach to evaluation especially appropriate for situations of high uncertainty where what may and does emerge is relatively unpredictable and uncontrollable.

The great unexplored frontier is evaluation under conditions of complexity. Developmental evaluation explores that frontier.

I know the answer now, but I'm so frightened I've forgotten the question.

The three biggest lies in the world are these: it gets better; everything will be OK;

The fact is, life's successes and failures are sporadic, and their causes are difficult to determine. Hard work and luck are behind most successes, though it is hard to say, for any given success, how much of each there has been.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

And no one on the surface had any idea of its fate. The

Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no. But in your case I'm not so sure. You still have feelings for her." -Virginia Dare

Then I'll go keep our crocodile friends busy." Niten's teeth flashed in a smile. "I'll try to leave a few for you." He stepped away and faded into the night. "Be careful," Prometheus called. A disembodied voice drifted out of the fog. "I was born for this. What's the worst that could happen?" "You could be killed and eaten by the Spartoi." "Doesn't frighten me.

Anpu," Scathach whispered. "I think we're in trouble.

I hear a but in there somewhere

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

This fact provides a rebuttal to the argument "What if a young woman aborts a baby who would have gone on to become a doctor and find the cure for cancer?" A rejoinder is, "What if a young woman who would have gone on to become a doctor and find the cure for cancer dies in childbirth?

The belief that all knowledge is culturally determined and therefore lacks certainty is largely the product of an uncertain cultural milieu.

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great … He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err.

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive dissonance of not knowing by filling the gaps with answers. Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today — the age of science — science fiction is our mythology.

An uncertain and doubting mind leads to fresh world visions and the possibility of new and ever-changing realities.

Yaz and Meyer didn't know whether to shit once, twice, go blind, or die – though the latter