Quotes About Uncertainty

What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here.

The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not looking back or beneath their feet, and with no loose change for the boatman.

As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared.

Today will just be something else that they don't talk about, something else that probably never happened.

You are playing with fire. You just don't know that yet. You might burn and there will be no smoke. At all!

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.

Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction

Perhaps the choice was neither right nor wrong. It only existed.

He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne.

The intrinsic value of an asset is determined by the cash flows you expect that asset to generate over its life and how uncertain you feel about these cash flows.

In the intrinsic valuation chapter, we observed that the value of a firm is a function of three variables—its capacity to generate cash flows, its expected growth in these cash flows, and the uncertainty associated with these cash flows.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

Cree en ti , pero no tanto; duda de ti, pero no tanto. Cuando sientas duda, cree; cuando creas, duda. En esto estriba la única verdadera sabiduría que puede acompañar a un escritor.

I worry that even those who want to reform are not quite sure how to go about it. There is so much to be done.

Sometimes we need to seek the unknown, without really knowing where we are heading.

like traveling without knowing what country you're going to

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.

We know that we are going to die, in fact it is the only thing we know of what is in store for us. All the rest is mere guesswork, and most of the time we guess wrong. Like children in the trackless forest we grope our way through our lives in blissful ignorance of what is going to happen to us from one day to another, what hardships we may have to face, what more or less thrilling adventures we may encounter before the great adventure, the most thrilling of all, the Adventure of Death.