Quotes About Uncertainty

Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.

Relax. No one else knows what they're doing either.

There are a lot of things that happen to us that cannot be explained. I don't have the answer for everything, but I do know this: if you think you can do something, then you can do it. If you think you can't do something, then most likely you can't.

Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.

What is that in his hand?" "A cleaver. As in-" "Butcher's knife." "You got it." "I hope not." "He does not look happy." "Are you sure it's a he?" "I don't want to know.

You will leave now," said Grdankl the Strong. "Go! Do not be afraid! If you die, it is okay!

South Sudan and its people are at a precarious crossroads between being and not being.

All things pass, all things, that is, but mystery.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.

Uncertainty was a sacrament and the quest for miles meant that we'd never know where or how we'd end the day.

Their only real endowments were soft skills such as a willingness to accept the help of strangers, stubborn practicality, and the ability to live with uncertainty.

Even more beautiful than the land that we passed, or the months spent camping on the plains, was learning to live with uncertainty.

Fear was just a deceptive veil obscuring the unknown.

the ratio of assumptions you have to make relative to knowledge that you possess is high—a different set of disciplines needs to be employed.

A more effective approach in uncertain environments is to allow resources to be invested only when uncertainty is reduced, a core principle of options reasoning.

Love is the wild card of existence.

You never know what you're going to get, and children have their own personalities immediately. I was watching little kids on a carousel. Some kids were jumping on the horses; some kids were afraid of the horses; some kids were betting on the horses.

Blue Nile. I could see the envelope sinking, sinking…but

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.

Anything involving the future is an over-optimistic lie.

I could die. That was obviously an option all along—and I knew it—but in that moment, in that gloomy room, for some unknown reason … it finally sunk in. Like, really sunk in. And it sunk in hard. I felt the floor tip under me. I don't mean that in a fancy-pants, writing way. I mean it felt like the floor actually tipped under my feet—severely—and then dropped away.

You have blundered into an adult existence you don't understand, and you can't tell whether you planned it this way or whether you screwed up big-time, though it's too late either way.

And they're right—what could be scarier, stupider, than staying together? How else could you totally guarantee that you would always have reasons to be terrified?