Quotes About Uncertainty

When you're panicking you make rash decisions.

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.

I never predict freight rates; nobody can do that.

We're living in interesting times, where people seem to be able to say things which are contrary to what you would call rationalism.

I spent two years at NXT and a lot of times questioned, 'When is this going to happen?' or 'Is this actually going to happen? Am I going to make it to 'Raw?''

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of possibly still managing whatever it is I'm supposed to do. I think, secretly, I might even get a buzz out of it. Maybe I crave the adrenalin like some sort of crazy gambler high on risking everything on the turn of a card.

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.

The danger is you never know if people are actually saying what they mean. I've learned you never know how someone will react.

You don't have any kind of control ultimately. Things are just going to happen as they will. And I think your best option sometimes is just to react rather than try to plan everything out in advance.

You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.

The first tour an artist does is a strange one... because you can never tell how the audience is going to react.

I was so nervous about 'Kingsman,' I can't tell you, because when you do things different and fresh and fun and crazy, you don't know how people are going to react.

I don't know how I would react to the casting couch. I'm sure that at that moment, you won't really know what to do. Whatever you do at that moment is instinctive.

You just never know how an audience is going to react.

I think that battle that you have almost never goes away. You're always questioning and hoping that stuff goes a certain way, that you get a certain reaction.

Performing outside of a WWE ring was a very different experience for me. In the ring if you hit someone in the face, you get an immediate reaction. You don't have that when you shoot a movie so you don't know whether or not it's good or bad until it's cut.