Quotes About Uncertainty

99 percent secure is 100 percent insecure.

Many financial disasters can be traced to people who thought they were hedging.

DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I knew in my heart?

Sometimes confusion feels like pain. Sometimes it feels like falling.

We never know the future until it becomes part of the past.

That's the way life takes us,' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us like that.' What she didn't say was that through it all we manage to cling to something that makes sense.

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

What can come? This was a brilliant question. Can is scarier than will. What will come limits itself. What can come has no boundaries.

The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.

The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.

Mariamma, sometimes when you are most afraid, when you feel most helpless, that is when God is pointing out a path for you.

sometimes we have to "live the question," not push for the answer.

In a life, it is the in-betweens that are fatal. It is the indecisiveness that killed his son.

He didn't disagree that God may have other plans for me, but he said sometimes we have to 'live the question,' not push for the answer.

I'm afraid that I won't do the right thing in the face of disaster. Or, I'm afraid I will be stupidly brave.

Not so much living, but a hovering without sense.

we don't know he's dead do we? Have we seen a body? Has anyone told us he's dead?" I didn't say anything," he protested. Then don't look at me like I'm crazy. If I'm wrong,let me be wrong , let me be crazy,

We believe that great creators are born with a biological immunity to risk. They're wired to embrace uncertainty and ignore social approval; they simply don't worry about the costs of non-conformity the way the rest of us do. They're programmed to be iconoclasts, rebels, revolutionaries, troublemakers, mavericks, and contrarians who are impervious to fear, rejection, and ridicule.

In the face of uncertainty, our first instinct is often to reject novelty, looking for reasons why unfamiliar concepts might fail.26 When managers vet novel ideas, they're in an evaluative mindset. To protect themselves against the risks of a bad bet, they compare the new notion on the table to templates of ideas that have succeeded in the past. When

To become an original, we have to be willing to take some risks. When we go against the grain to upend time-honored traditions, we can never be certain that we will succeed. As journalist Robert Quillen wrote, "Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second and keep one foot on first base.

He held his grip on her arm. "What if something goes wrong? Have you thought of that? What if today is all there is?" "Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten

He held his grip on her arm. "What if something goes wrong? Have you thought of that? What if today is all there is?" "Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.