Quotes About Uncertainty

Predicting oil prices is anyone's guess.

I kind of muddled through 'Pride & Prejudice,' but with 'Atonement,' I knew what I was doing. That makes it sound like I had no doubt. I had doubts - I didn't know whether it would work. But I knew exactly what I wanted to try to do.

But this is what I want to do, and it is what I will continue doing until Judas Priest finishes, which, at the moment, I can't see that yet. It could be three years or five years, who knows?

The industry gives an actor many reasons to feel insecure primarily because of its fleeting nature.

I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us.

I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.

We don't know where print is going.

We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.

The reality is when you open a door, there is no sense in closing it - so I would never say, 'I'll never act again.' But it's definitely not my priority.

Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

People say people who spend too many years in prison don't know how to act when they get free. I don't know how I am going to act, how I am going to kill time, once I am not a fighter. Retirement scares me, and I have to think about how I am going to handle it.

Not many of my friends I had from college are playing in this league. Everybody knows it's a privilege, so you definitely don't knock it because you never know where you may end up.

The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear.

Anything can happen in pro wrestling.

Pro wrestling is pro wrestling and it's one of those industries where things change on a dime. I'm coming up on 19 years in a business with various companies and often one day you're there and the next day you're gone.

From day one I knew Pro Elite didn't know what they were doing.

After college I was like, Oh, I want to play pro,' but I didn't know exactly what that meant.

I didn't know if pro ball was in the plans for me. I didn't know it was going to happen right away.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.

We don't know the probabilities of future events. Still, you have to take action, and so you do it on gut feeling. That's the world we live in.

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

I live in dread that I might find myself in some sort of emergency, and everyone will turn to me and expect me to know what the correct procedures are.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.