Quotes About Uncertainty

Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.

I have this eerie feeling that by the time I'm 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before. It's cool but also a little creepy.

As strange as it may sound, I think I'm a lot more at peace with the fact that you can't guarantee you're going to be all right [at] any time.

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun

Accidents can happen at any time.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.

There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list.

They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.

Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

We live in a complex world and at a challenging time.

The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux.

For the first time all day I felt safe. Except that Patch had cornered me in a dark tunnel and was possibly stalking me. Maybe not so safe.

Even I don't know what I'm saying most of the time.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.

When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.

My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.

Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.

Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.

Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.

Everything that we know now will be changed in 10 years time.