Quotes About Uncertainty

Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it.

How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.

There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.

I might not know who I was yesterday or who I'm going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.

I knew there was something I had to do yesterday. I couldn't remember what it is. I can't figure it out. I know it's a holiday. I know I don't have a meeting. It's very confusing.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.

I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, 'What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?' Like, everyone collectively decided, 'We're done!' Over time I got more confidence.

I think about work all the time. I was in my bathroom yesterday and thought, 'I could never work again.' I don't have a job lined up right now - what if I never get another one?

I am stronger than yesterday and working harder than yesterday but don't know what will happen tomorrow.

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?

But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York.

We had all these things to deal with - houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying 'don't worry about anything.' So it was really confusing.

I graduated high school early, and I moved to New York before I even knew I was going to college or anything.

When I was 8, I began to study ballet. In seventh grade, my mother took me into New York to study at the School of American Ballet. I loved ballet - its precision, the escape from uncertainty, and the music.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

You can't get anywhere in life without taking risks.

Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.

Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.

Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again.