Quotes About Uncertainty

Coming out of college, you never really know how good you are, you've never played for money, you've put all your eggs in one basket and your whole life revolves around it. For a while, I didn't think I was going to be good enough.

While I don't know if I exist in the land of the elite, I'm definitely on the battlefield with restlessness.

What keeps you in this business is the thought that maybe tomorrow will be different.

I learned early in my career that I had to be prepared for life after football because you never knew when it would end.

2020 is going to be real. It's going to get loud.

I think every season in pre-season you go into it and everyone is saying, 'they'll be strong next season,' but you never know.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be.

I always tell other actors that work begets work. You never know where your next job is going to lead you, down the road.

You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

Sometimes I doubt, and sometimes I believe. I like not making myself believe when I am doubting and not making myself doubt when I am believing.

I mean, at the beginning of a season you never know how things are going to turn out. You're always going in positive, believing in the work that's been done.

Future belongs to God and we don't know what's gonna happen.

rather than rushing headlong into things with a mind that is sorely out of touch with large parts of ourself, a mind driven by narrow ambition and ideas of personal gain. The story says we can only fare well if we proceed with an awareness of the way things are, including a willingness to admit not knowing where we are going.

I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme's appeal. That it wouldn't be easy was the whole point.

There are no true answers, just shades of grey, coincidence, and circumstance.

Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.

With so many incompetent people on the mountain," Rob said with a frown one evening in late April, "I think it's pretty unlikely that we'll get through this season without something bad happening up high.

I looked down. Descent was totally unappetizing.… Too much labor, too many sleepless nights, and too many dreams had been invested to bring us this far. We couldn't come back for another try next weekend. To go down now, even if we could have, would be descending to a future marked by one huge question: what might have been? Thomas F. Hornbein     Everest: The West Ridge A

In the absence of conviction, I've come to terms with the fact that uncertainty is an inescapable corollary of life. An abundance of mystery is simply part of the bargain—which doesn't strike me as something to lament. Accepting the essential inscrutability of existence, in any case, is surely preferable to its opposite: capitulating to the tyranny of intransigent belief.

Allison asked him, "Has this happened before?…" "No! Never!" Donaldson sobbed. "This is the first time anything has ever happened to me like this. Ever!…I

If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.

a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.