Quotes About Uncertainty

Everything fails, all the time.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

Time is a storm in which we are all lost.

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.

Surfing is all about uncertainty. That feeling of taking a risk, that leap of faith every time I jump into the ocean, that paddle out among things unseen — all of these make surfing very special

Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for the moment.

You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.

We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.

You're always working at the margin of what you don't understand, that's the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.

Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times.

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.