Quotes About Uncertainty

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

When I saw you, I was afraid to meet you... When I met you, I was afraid to kiss you... When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you... Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.

I tell you I love you every day for fear that tomorrow isn't another.

Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because its safe or certain.

If you're in a card game and you don't know who the sucker is, you're it.

I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned out that way.

I've been able to chart out my professional life. But I can never chart out my personal one.

I've heard some writers say things like, 'Well, I'm a professional writer. I only start books I know I can finish.' I look at it maybe the other way: I only want to write books I'm not sure I can write.

If you play professionally, you can expect to go broke at some point.

When we go out to the university, the professors always say, 'Tell these students about your five-year plan and your 10-year plan,' and I say, 'Gee, we're lucky if we have a year plan.'

I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.

Politics is profoundly nonlinear.

Frankenstein' was more programmed, but 'Dracula' we did as it came along because at the beginning we weren't sure how it was going to end - it wasn't written in the script.

I'm in the factory a lot so I see how hard the guys work, but you never really know how quickly and effectively the other teams' development programmes are going until you get to the track. It's only then that we will be able to tell.

I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

I am not sure what the future holds for me personally, but I envision myself continuing to work on spaceflight programs.

When you start new programs there's always things you can't anticipate.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

With a progressive issue, it was always a monkey that was chasing me down. I had a great fear of losing my hearing. In my gut, I always knew that it was going to happen. I was just hoping that it would happen when I was 50 and not when I was 18.

It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.

I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.

Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle.

I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.