Quotes About Uncertainty

negative capability," the ability to exist amid uncertainties, mysteries, and doubt without reaching for absolutes, whether those of science or spirituality.

Compared with many scientists—or for that matter many spiritual types—Roland Griffiths possesses a large measure of what Keats, referring to Shakespeare, described as "negative capability," the ability to exist amid uncertainties, mysteries, and doubt without reaching for absolutes, whether those of science or spirituality.

Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon.

In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.

I think that the health care industry is so complex that it doesn't necessarily start with a single killer app. You go back to the early days of the personal computer - when I joined the industry, we really didn't know what the killer app was going to be.

Every single movie I go up for I'm just checking the phone to see if the e-mail's come in, to see if I got the part yet, which makes me more anxious.

You never take a single day in this league for granted because it can be over in a second.

I train with Marta every single day, and I still have no idea what she's going to throw at me. She's one of those players - anything can happen at any given moment.

Imagine feeling like every kiss goodbye to your loved ones each day might be your last kiss. Police officers and their families feel this way every single day.

You just wake up every single day with a clear mind and basically just have fun and be positive, because God knows what could happen, you know?

I still doubt myself every single day.

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

Every single thing you do, you don't really have expectations.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

I grew up in Bridlington until I was 16, and I lived with my mum and my sisters. I finished school, got my GCSE's, and at the time I didn't know what I wanted to do.

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

We don't know what we're doing. We don't have a plan. We don't sit down and calculate it.

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.

I realised I had spent the majority of my adult life doing two characters - Maude from 1972-'79 and Dorothy from 1985-'92 - and I really didn't know what I wanted to do after 'Golden Girls.' I knew what I didn't want to do - any more sitcoms, or wait for the next great role that might never come.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.