Uncertainty Quotes - Page 24

• The inner experience of fallure is totally different than failure. Going to fallure means 100% commitment - you leave nothing in reserve, no mental or physical resource untapped, you never give yourself a psychological out. Failure means making a decision to let go, to be less than 100% committed, when confronted by fear, pain and uncertainty.

  James C. Collins

  Letting Go, Pain, Mean

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• War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Fog, Three

  On War bk. 1, ch. 3 (1832 - 1834).

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• Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Animal, Men

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• Uncertainty causes more anxiety than perhaps any other single factor.

  Liz Miller

  Anxiety, Causes, Factors

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.140, Pan Macmillan

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• Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

  Charles Kettering

  Ignorance, Thoughtful, Men

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• We have to be careful of not injecting more uncertainty than economy can handle

  Raghuram Rajan

  Economy, Be Careful, Handle

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• When we face uncertainty, we encourage everyone to press forward and believe in the values of the product.

  Evan Spiegel

  Believe, Faces, Products

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• Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or
  thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin of error was high in
  a forecasting model that I might put together. Now I view it as perhaps the
  single most important piece of information that a forecaster provides. When
  we publish a forecast on FiveThirtyEight, I go to great lengths to document
  the uncertainty attached to it, even if the uncertainty is sufficiently
  large that the forecast won't make for punchy headlines.

  Nate Silver

  Views, Errors, Annoyed

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• Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Information, Uncomfortable, Feels

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• Risk is not inherent in an investment; it is always relative to the price paid. Uncertainty is not the same as risk. Indeed, when great uncertainty - such as in the fall of 2008 - drives securities prices to especially low levels, they often become less risky investments.

  Seth Klarman

  Fall, Risk, Levels

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• The idea that you try to time purchases based on what you think business is going to do in the next year or two, I think that's the greatest mistake that investors make because it's always uncertain. People say it's a time of uncertainty. It was uncertain on September 10th, 2001, people just didn't know it. It's uncertain every single day. So take uncertainty as part of being involved in investment at all. But uncertainty can be your friend. I mean, when people are scared, they pay less for things. We try to price. We don't try to time at all.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Mean, Thinking

  "Warren Buffett's 'Stock Split' Interview". "Squawk Box" with Becky Quick, www.cnbc.com. January 10, 2010.

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• Other people's belief changes you. We all have insecurity, and uncertainty, and to have that glow cast over you by somebody that you respect, makes a gigantic difference.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Differences, People, Over You

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

  Lawrence Block

  Maturity, Men, Years

  Lawrence Block (2010). “Everybody Dies”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• In a world of turmoil and uncertainty, it is more important than ever to make our families the center of our lives and the top of our priorities.

  L. Tom Perry

  Priorities, Important, World

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• We live here and now. Everything before and in other places is past. Mostly forgotten. What could, what should be done with all the time that lies ahead of us, open and unshaped, feather-light in its freedom and lead-heavy in its uncertainty? Is it a wish? Dream-like and nostalgic, to stand once again at that point in life and be able to take a completely different direction than the one that has made us who we are?

  Pascal Mercier

  Dream, Lying, Past

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• We must never let fear... divert us from our faith and faithful living. Every person in every era has had to walk by faith into what has always been some uncertainty. This is the plan. Just be faithful. God is in charge. He knows your name and He knows your need.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Names, Faithful, Needs

  "This, the Greatest of All Dispensations". Fireside address, www.lds.org. July 2007.

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• I think you have an enormous amount of fear and uncertainty in this country. And it`s not just from San Bernardino or from Paris.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Thinking, Paris

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• Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Illusion, Enough, Certainty

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• Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

  Douglas Conant

  Jobs, Mean, Anxiety

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• Don't let uncertainty talk you into pursuing a backup plan instead of your purpose.

  Bob Goff

  Purpose, Backup, Plans

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Apr 28, 2015

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• I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All these things. There's no way I'm ever going to catch up to the misery years. It's impossible... If I don't do anything dumb or I don't get a disease or something, and then I've got to five to eight years I think where it'll really be great and then it will start to degenerate like uranium, you know?

  Louis C. K.

  Thinking, Two, Good Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.

  Louis C. K.

  Years, Two, Ego

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'

  Dave Grohl

  Dark, Tea, Albums

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• There cannot be any peace where there is uncertainty.

  Dwight L. Moody

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• When I realized this fear, this uncertainty, this potential of dying, I guess I needed something greater to hold onto than what we can see, touch, and smell-and that was the spiritual aspect of God, the nature of God and his relationship to humans.

  Goldie Hawn

  Spiritual, Smell, Dying

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