Quotes About Uncertainty

One thing I have realised is that there are no certainties. Anything can happen anytime.

When it got to the diagnosis of my knee and when I realised how long I was going to be out, my thoughts spiralled out of control.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

I realised that you just don't know about destiny. You think you are in control of your fate but, really, you are not. There are other powers at work. You don't get to see the full picture until decades later.

Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

We need to stop all this over-puffiness of how wonderful everything is going to be when we leave the E.U. Because it's not. It's going to be very damaging for huge sectors of British industry. We've got to be realistic.

There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now.

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

The cruel realities of austerity and Brexit mean that life is chaotic, expensive and the road ahead is littered with obstacles.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

At my job, my manager had a massive heart attack; we had layoffs. It made me realize that nothing is certain, nothing is for sure, and if I'm going to make a move, I gotta make a move now.

The first season of a show's always a rollercoaster because nobody knows what they're doing. You gotta rush through the season trying to figure out: What is this show? And who are these characters?

We haven't even gotten a start date but we'll see what happens with that and that will be fun. I've gotten a couple of other things but I'm not really committing myself to anything yet.

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit.

When I got outta school, I didn't know what I was gonna do with my life. I knew I didn't have much in the grades department, and so I was very fearful. A whole lot of fear.

One of the biggest questions that we hear from young graduates is, 'I'm not even sure where to start because I'm not quite sure who I want to be yet.'

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.

When I graduated from Brown, I had a very limited conception of jobs, careers, and what I wanted to do. Basically, I figured I should do some kind of thought work that paid well, but I wasn't sure what.

You just never know what the grand plan is on 'Dexter,' so I didn't know if I was going to make it to the next episode, let alone the next season!