Uncertainty Quotes - Page 31

• What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Pain, Waiting, Endurance

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• If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Moving, Men, Things In Life

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• If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

  Lee Iacocca

  Procrastination, Starting Over, Waiting

  "Stop procrastinating in 3 minutes with one simple question" by Chris Winfield, www.businessinsider.com. February 23, 2015.

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• The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.

  Andy Stanley

  Goal, Navigate

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.85, Multnomah

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• To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

  Socrates

  Ridiculous, Uncertain, Certainty

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• Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Heart, Waiting, Unanswered Questions

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• Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

  Brené Brown

  Inspiring, Letting Go, Business

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• I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

  Dani Shapiro

  Jobs, Artist, Joy

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.183, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.

  Solon

  Confused, Simple, Law

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• An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Obsession, Seems

  Henry Mintzberg (2000). “The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning”, p.202, Pearson Education

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• The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Tourists, Deceit, Needs

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• What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.290, Princeton University Press

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• In times of uncertainty, we tend to move away from deterministic world views. And when we try to find moral footing for our actions, we compare ourselves to the foil of all foils, the Nazi period. It's a quest for moral certainty by saying, "Even if we're not doing great these days, at least we're not the Third Reich." Which can be consoling or alarmist. There's always a present-day agenda behind it.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  Moving, Views, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Want, Layers

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.363, Penguin

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• Investors frequently benefit from making decisions with less than perfect knowledge and are well rewarded for bearing the risk of uncertainty. The time other investors spend delving into the last unanswered detail may cost them the chance to buy into situations at prices so low they offer a margin of safety despite the incomplete information

  Seth Klarman

  Safety, Perfect, Decision

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• Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego's will to prevail. To listen to the soul is to stop fighting with life-to stop fighting when things fall apart, when they don't go our way, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty, and to wait.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Fall, Fighting, Life And Death

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• Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Certain

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• Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Loneliness, Men, Order

  Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.119, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees and saying, "I know what I want. I know what I think." And then suddenly at 11 or 12, the gender role takes hold, and adults tell us, "How clever of you to know what time it is." It happens to boys, too and even sooner - between five and eight. Before that, boys cry and express uncertainty.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Clever, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• One of the things that makes the uncertainty of death so difficult for us is that we could be involved in a project and then, suddenly, it's cut off. And it's cut off in the midst of our involvement, so that we don't have a chance to see it through, to accomplish what we might accomplish.

  Todd May

  Cutting, Might, Chance

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around. It always disturbed me how many biographers never gave their subjects a chance to eat. You can tell a lot about people by how they eat, what they eat, and what kind of table manners they have.

  David McCullough

  People, Flavor, Tables

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• In this place of gracious uncertainty, we wait. For the broken places to be brought back together. For the meaning of our suffering to be revealed in his. For the righteous reign of a mighty God, whose goodness we will spend all eternity celebrating. We wait - with open, expectant hearts.

  Paula Rinehart

  Heart, Broken, Waiting

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• Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.

  Max More

  Mean, Technology, Emotional

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• The Lord is my peace. I shall not live in anxiety. He puts me under His wing of comfort and calms my spirit within me. He takes all my anxieties on Himself and helps me to focus on Him. Yes, though I walk through a time of grave uncertainties and fierce anxieties, I will not fret - for You are my peace. Your Word and Your presence calm me now. You hold my uncertainties in the palm of Your hand. You soothe my anxious mind - You smooth my wrinkled brow. Surely serenity and trust in You shall fill me all the days of my life. And I shall keep my mind stayed on You forever.

  Linda Dillow

  Hands, Wings, Focus

  Linda Dillow (2014). “My Journey to Contentment: A Companion Journal for Calm My Anxious Heart”, p.191, Tyndale House

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• I don't see love as some perfect happily ever after thing like it is in books and movies. It's more like a bumpy road filled with potholes...and detours. Sometimes we even veer off into the ditch. But the places that road will take you, the things you'll experience, are worth all of the uncertainty.

  Melissa Brown

  Book, Perfect, Bumpy Roads

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