Quotes About Uncertainty

Frazier realized that many suppositions would never be proved. There were possibilities and probabilities and few provabilities.

Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

Trust is a choice. Actually, trust is more of a desperate, hopeful guess based on limited information.

Blind panic might not work all the time, but at least it saved you the stress of planning.

We can know what was, but not what might have been.

Practically speaking, it was like carrying a Labrador retriever over a tightrope and having a squirrel race past.

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.

At the most marginal of opportunities, Jake was fond of telling anyone within earshot the three great secrets of how to proceed when you don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing. The secrets, in the order he invariably listed them, were intuition, reason, and desperation.

When you don't understand what is happening, you need to wait, trust God, and rest in His care. He is always faithful to His own.

Quit looking for an answer, Jim. There fuckin' ain't one. Fuck yeah, I'm still looking for God's telephone number.

Dave: ''Will you ever be happy Echo?'' Echo: ''I don't know I haven't tried it yet.'' Dave: ''Let's give it a shot together.'' Echo: ''Let's spread fire instead.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

Everyday I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.

Only experience can refine a leader's art. High-uncertainty projects are full of anxiety, change, and ambiguity that the team must deal with. It takes a different style of project management, a different pattern of team operation, and a different type of project leader. I've labeled this type of management leadership-collaboration.

When uncertainty is low, adaptive approaches run the risk of higher costs. When uncertainty is high, optimizing approaches run the risk of settling too early on a particular solution and stifling innovation.

Is science a "candle in the dark"?… Or is it simply whistling in the dark?

LIFE HAS NO PLOT, WHY MUST FILMS OR FICTION?

If you hate change, then you're really going to hate extinction.

Twilight souls, caught somewhere between dark and light, knowing and unknowing. Neither one thing nor another. A crossbreed race.

Meanwhile:outside the Burrow, new shoots of trees, new wood, reach out of the ground, toward air, toward sun, toward something they can't actually see, something they have no way to be sure is even there.

Something's about to end. Or start. I'm not sure. I just know we're not in the middle anymore. It's safer in the middle.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

The objective of the scenario approach is not to decide which scenario is right…. There is no 'right' answer.