Quotes About Uncertainty

Life is a rotten lottery.

If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible.

Life is not what you expected it to be.

One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

You may have a plan, but life throws you curve balls. Put God first; his plan is better anyway.

It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.

Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!

I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That's life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what's going on.

Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome

I think there are times in life where you're automatically drawn to somebody and it's weird - you freak out a bit.

The hardest part of change is going through the unknown.

The goal of preparation then is not knowing exactly where you'll go but being confident nonetheless that you'll get there.

You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.

A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.