Quotes About Uncertainty

Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any more, beyond which life gets really nasty and you become a dissident without having intended ever to be one.

I was studying psychology honours and was very happy in that zone. I had dreams of pursuing higher education. When the first film happened and another one after that, I was not sure about sticking around in this career. It was never my dream.

He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

True freedom lies in the realization and calm acceptance of the fact that there may very well be no perfect answer.

Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.

Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.

The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish, discovers the folly of the chase.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

All business proceeds on beliefs, on judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.

Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.