Quotes About Uncertainty

Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at night to take it off.

My plan is to have no plan. If you know what plan you have, life has its own ideas and will take you in any direction it pleases. So my idea about life is to just be open to it and to go with the flow and go with my gut.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

Playing it safe isn't fun; you have to take a chance.

It's very hard to go out and make big investments to take advantage of the shale energy if we don't know if it's always going to be there, what price it's going to be there, whether the country's going to allow it to be exported, or whether it's going to go and affect subsidized U.S. manufacturing.

Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

I've taken a lot of chances in my life.

Nothing should be taken for granted, even if everybody believes it.

I think nothing can be taken for granted - be it the fact that you get to work with a certain kind of talent, certain kinds of budgets, or that the audience looks forward to your work.

I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you don't get fired.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

I'm not afraid of taking big shots and things like that. It's a 50-50 chance. It might go in, it might not, but I'm not scared to take it.

I'm taking a break, if you will. Days' was going through a renewal negotiation and not knowing where they were going to go.

When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.

I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.

My career was a roller-coaster ride but I never stopped taking chances.

Games are all about taking risks.

We are always in a state of flux, and taking risks is important.

I have taken lot of risks in life, and I believe that life is about taking risks.