Uncertain Quotes - Page 9

• In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren, and since these are institutional maladies, they will not be easy to overcome. While much remains uncertain, we can assure ourselves, with fair confidence, that future generations will not forgive us our silence and apathy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Grandchildren, Silence, Forgiving

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• Being in charge of your work life doesn't mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving, continuing on your own path, even when you feel shaky and uncertain.

  Charlotte Beers

  Moving, Mean, Self Confidence

  Charlotte Beers (2012). “I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work”, p.197, Vanguard Press

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• I've done films about games. What I like with games is that there is this uncertain outcome and the element of chance.

  Jørgen Leth

  Games, Elements, Done

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

  Sylvester McCoy

  Lakes, Decision, Boulders

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• Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end to controversies. It does enter it, but to add new uncertain ingredients... to all the other ingredients that make up the collective experiments. When scientists add their findings to the mix, they do not put an end to politics; they add new ingredients to the collective process.

  Bruno Latour

  Order, Doe, Add

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• In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Effort, Physics, Modern

  The Feynman Lectures on Physics (pp. 6-1 1)

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• A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.

  Robert Morley

  Men, Bed, Should

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• The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness - that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Sadness, Insecure, Effort

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• For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance makes the promise that no matter how bleak things sometimes look, in the end everything will turn out right and true love will triumph -- and in an uncertain world, that's very comforting.

  Leigh Michaels

  Romance, Comforting, Promise

  Leigh Michaels (2007). “On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells”, p.5, Writer's Digest Books

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• My new long anhyzer disc and controlled fairway driver. It gets the same beautiful flippy hyzer S shot as my Surge, I just don't have to throw it as hard. This makes it the most valuable to me on uncertain terrain where my footwork is compromised. A stand-still driver shot is now no longer a problem.

  Liz Carr

  Beautiful, Long, Problem

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• To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities whose returns rise and fall in near unison afford little protection than the uncertain return of a single security.

  Harry Markowitz

  Fall, Risk, Return

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• I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love-that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time.

  William S. Burroughs

  Christian, Falling In Love, Sex

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• There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization - "dustsceawung," meaning contemplation of dust. It is a true image of the Anglo-Saxon mind, or at least an echo of that consciousness which considered transcience and loss to be part of the human estate; it was a world in which life was uncertain and the principal diety was fate or destiny or "wyrd."

  Peter Ackroyd

  Fate, Loss, Destiny

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• While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.

  Elizur Wright

  Powerful, Science, Average

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• If he loves, he wants to make a relationship out of it immediately! He wants to get married. He wants to create a certain conditioning. He wants to make it a contract. Or he enters a church, or he enters a political party, or he enters into any club and he wants to be structured, he wants to know where he stands in the hierarchy, in what relationship. He wants to have an identity - that 'I am this.' He does not want to remain uncertain. And life is uncertain. Only death is certain.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Party, Political

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• Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

  Pema Chodron

  Important, Certain, Important Things

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• Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

  Milarepa

  Life Is Short, Evil, Meditation

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• Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

  Colin Wilson

  Animal, Reality, Men

  Colin Wilson (1985). “The essential Colin Wilson”

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• To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgement, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. Approval cannot be trusted. It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been. It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy. Yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Real, Track, Judgement

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• There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Today, Tomorrow, Unchanging

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2017

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• All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

  Daniel Webster

  Atheism, Creeds, Evidence

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• One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.

  Doris Lessing

  Insecure, Accepting, Certainty

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• Those living in rural areas as well as those with a planning policy remit for those areas have an important responsibility to protect green belt agricultural land for the wider benefit of feeding the UK into the uncertain future that we all face

  Phil Harding

  Responsibility, Land, Important

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Creativity, People, Trying

  "Author Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Big Magic' is a creative life". "CBS This Morning" with Norah O'Donnell, Gayle King and John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. September 22, 2015.

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• By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a pawn, whose recapture is quite uncertain, and open up his kingside to attack? And then follow up this policy by leaving the check of the black queen open? None whatever!

  Emanuel Lasker

  Queens, Moving, Sacrifice

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