Uncertainty Quotes - Page 33

• I started out looking for the perfect love story, but what I found instead was something even more beautiful - a messy love, an imperfect love, a human love. In this time of uncertainty, can I continue to love, even if it breaks my heart?

  Velcrow Ripper

  Love, Beautiful, Heart

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• When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.

  Al Gore

  Energy, Demand, Difficulty

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• Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict."

  Michael Jackson

  Powerful, Offering, People

  Michael Jackson (2004). “In Sierra Leone”, p.135, Duke University Press

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• Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension to rest. There is a scientific consensus on the fact that Earth's climate is heating up and human activities are part of the reason. We need to stop repeating nonsense about the uncertainty of global warming and start talking seriously about the right approach to address it.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Talking, People, Environmental

  "Undeniable Global Warming". www.washingtonpost.com. December 26, 2004.

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• People are saying that they want be convinced [about global warming], perfectly. They want to know the climate science projections with 100 per cent certainty. Well, we know a great deal and even with that there is still uncertainty. But the trend line is very clear. We never have 100 per cent certainty. We never have it. If you wait till you have 100 per cent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield. That's something we know. You have to act with incomplete information. You have to act based on the trend line.

  Gordon R. Sullivan

  People, Waiting, Environmental

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• In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd. Incongruously enough, however, when we allow ourselves to fully accept uncertainty, to embrace and cultivate it even, then we actually can begin to feel within ourselves the presence of an Absolute. The person who cannot welcome ambiguity cannot welcome God.

  Tom Robbins

  Mother, Hazards, World

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• With the level of uncertainty we see today, more people are asking, how can you develop a strategy in a world that keeps changing so fast? They are afraid that a set of rigid principles will hinder their ability to react quickly. I argue that it is precisely at such times that you need a strategy.

  Orit Gadiesh

  People, Principles, Needs

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• That was how a Salomon bond trader thought: He forgot whatever it was that he wanted to do for a minute and put his finger on the pulse of the market. If the market felt fidgety, if people were scared or desperate, he herded them like sheep into a corner, then made them pay for their uncertainty. He sat on the market until it puked gold coins. Then he worried about what he wanted to do.

  Michael Lewis

  Sheep, People, Gold

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• Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Beautiful, Certainty, Stills

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Map: Collected and Last Poems”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able to tolerate ambiguity and not be driven by fear into a rigid, single-solution approach to problems, who are rational, foresightful and who look for facts; who can draw inferences and can control their behavior in the light of foreseen consequences, who are altruistic and enjoy doing for others, and who understand social forces and trends.

  Robert J. Havighurst

  Light, People, Identity

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• With people increasingly faced with turmoil, uncertainty and crisis,
  I wanted to create music that uplifts the listener and offers a sense of hope to prevail.

  Clifton Anderson

  Uplifting, People, Turmoil

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• There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.

  Henri Poincare

  Knowledge, Math, Ontology

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• "I see it, but I don't believe it."

  Richard Dedekind

  Believe, Ontology, Statistics

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• The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.

  Eugene Wigner

  Science, Law, Miracle

  Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.549, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

  David Hilbert

  Ontology, Vitality, Connections

  "Mathematical Problems". Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris, translated by Maby Winton Newson, mathcs.clarku.edu. 1900.

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• In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love. . . . Taken together they provide an unusually touching story of young love unable to prevail against an opposition whose strength was tragically buttressed by the uncertainties of a cultural divide.

  Isabel Colegate

  Taken, Men, Years

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• A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.

  Marty Neumeier

  Ideas, Genius, Tolerate

  Marty Neumeier (2014). “The 46 Rules of Genius: An Innovator's Guide to Creativity”, p.31, New Riders

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• There's a lot of uncertainty that's not clear in my mind.

  Gib Lewis

  Mind, Clear

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• The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty

  Yoshida Kenko

  Things In Life, Life Is, Precious Things

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• I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Certainty

  "Rabbi Sacks, Faith, and Certainty". www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2010.

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• The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.

  Caroline Knapp

  Fear, Mistake, Mean

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• Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.

  Jacques Ellul

  Christian, Agents, Dimensions

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• We need to be humble in the face of uncertainty

  Paul DePodesta

  Humble, Needs, Faces

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• One of the principal impediments to job creation is uncertainty on the part of American companies, large and small. We've all watched as companies have sat on a lot of capital. They're uncertain about what tax policy is going to be. They're clearly uncertain about how health care costs. They're uncertain about all the regulations on capital markets.

  Tom J. Donohue

  Jobs, Cost, Care

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• Somewhere along the journey of remembering who we really are, we may find ourselves in a very uncomfortable space, a void in which we realize that we haven't totally let go of our old beliefs, and on the other hand we have yet to fully plug into the new truths we have discovered. This awkward "place of mind" can bring on an internal crisis of uncertainty, instability, confusion, frustration, and a most unspeakable despair as the "dark night" sets in and makes its presence felt.

  Nicholas Schmidt

  Letting Go, Dark, Night

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