Quotes About Uncertainty

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to say. And I'd even go on and say, I don't even think so.

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you're someplace you don't want to be, with someone you realize you don't know.

School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

A lot of people don't know what they want, you know, or they're just kind of vague about it.

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process.

I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue. Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am.

As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.

People can have all the expectations that they want, but I know that you never know what's going to happen in life. Everything is part of the journey.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?

Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.

The frog atop the stack of coins dares not jump.

They are a generation that has tasted blood, and where horror fades, nostalgia seeps in. In war all is simple, and there is appeal in this. Who among us is comforted by confusion, uncertainty?