Quotes About Uncertainty

The U.K. voted for Brexit and a lot of weak-willed, lily-livered people will say 'yeah but the people did not know what they were voting for, they had no idea of what this was going to entail.' Those are the people who are saying 'lets get a second referendum, let's make the people aware this time that there is, in fact, a lot more to this.'

Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?

Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.

Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.

When I look at our roster, I'm sure all of you have printed that I'm coming up on 35, and given my situation and my salary structure and all that, yeah, I have to wonder if this team is going to make moves and they haven't.

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

You can't go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can't stop you from trying.

Everything changes with time. You can't predict where you're gonna be next year; you have no idea, you know what I mean?

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

I always knew about the risks I was taking. Every year, someone you knew was killed racing. You had to ask yourself, do you enjoy driving these cars so much that you're prepared to take that risk?

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.

You don't know what's going to happen in our business a year from now... so you have to be flexible and adaptable, and that's what we try to do.

Twenty is a tough age because it slips past in the middle of so much else - university, gap year, leaving home, getting jobs.

I did a year at Columbia, and I just kind of floundered. Maybe it wasn't the right place for me.

I might not agree with myself in a year.

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

'The X-Files,' as I recall, we didn't know really what we were until the middle of the first year. You know, so if we'd been cancelled, you get cancelled before you mature into what it is you can actually be, which is too bad.

For all I know, I am beginning with the ending. My page one can wind up a year later as page two hundred, if it's still even around.

The disorder, uncertainty, and strife of a revolution make citizens yearn for stable authority, or they turn to radicalism.

I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds.

Perhaps in ten thousand years, the starry sky that humankind gazes upon will remain empty and silent. But perhaps tomorrow we'll wake up and find an alien spaceship the size of the Moon parked in orbit.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?