Uncertainty Quotes - Page 37

• I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

  Gerd Gigerenzer

  Focus, Risk, Everyday

  Gerd Gigerenzer (2015). “Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness.

  Nancy Horan

  Effort, Trying, Behavior

  Nancy Horan (2012). “Loving Frank (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.174, Ballantine Books

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• Part of the excitement was just seeing how the world would respond. I kind of like uncertainty to some extent, because it's a little bit of suspense and excitement and adventure, almost, right? And you can learn a lot even if things don't work out. But not everyone likes adventure. A lot of people seem to be against uncertainty, actually. In all areas of life.

  Paul Buchheit

  Adventure, People, Work Out

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• The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.

  Max McKeown

  Team, Order, Tasks

  Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.51, Pearson UK

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• Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower.

  Andy Stanley

  Heart, Leader, Followers

  Andy Stanley (2012). “Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision”, p.135, Multnomah

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• In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that, in the end, there is light in the darkness.

  Joshua

  Light, Darkness, Comfort

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• There comes a time in every life when the past recedes and the future opens. It's that moment when you turn to face the unknown. Some will turn back to what they already know. Some will walk straight ahead into uncertainty. I can't tell you which one is right. But I can tell you which one is more fun.

  Phil Knight

  Fun, Past, Faces

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• Certainty creates strength. Certainty gives one something upon which to learn. Uncertainty creates weakness. Uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, even when in the right direction, may not overcome significant obstacles.

  John M Barry

  Giving, Weakness, Overcoming

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• You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.

  Kylie Minogue

  Tears, Mental Illness, Kicks

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• When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall.

  Kenneth Lay

  Fall, Thinking, Shoes

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• One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

  Edward Teller

  Future, Science, Uncertainty Principle

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.235, Basic Books

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• In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Pain, Fighting, Faces

  "Cancer stricken star Farrah Fawcett says last goodbyes as she prepares to die - Exclusive", www.mirror.co.uk. March 1, 2009.

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• Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.

  Marquis de Sade

  Husband, Pregnancy, Clouds

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• There is so much uncertainty in cricket. One day you can get a hundred, the next day you can be dismissed for a zero. It makes you become practical about things. Teaches you to accept both success and failure. I think I have learnt a lot about life from cricket.

  Mahela Jayawardene

  Zero, Thinking, Next Day

  "I have learnt a lot about life from cricket". S. Dinakar, "Sport Star", Volume 24, No. 38, September 22, 2001.

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• Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Earth, Life Is, Moments

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• Jesus beckons his followers to a path that's far from the easy road. It's a path filled with adventure, uncertainty, and unlimited possibilities - the only path that can fulfill the deepest longings and desires of your heart.

  Erwin McManus

  Jesus, Heart, Adventure

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• If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

  Stephen Covey

  Certain, One Thing, Ifs

  "Professional Services Marketing: Four Tips to Boost Results", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2017.

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• If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Needs, Walk By Faith, Walks

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp Unto My Feet: The Bible's Light For Your Daily Walk”, p.47, Revell

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• If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing today as it seldom has flourished in the past. For biologists collectively are less agreed upon the details of evolutionary mechanics than they were a scant decade ago. Superficially, it seems as if we know less about evolution than we did in 1959, the centennial year of Darwin's on the Origin of Species.

  Niles Eldredge

  Past, Years, Healthy

  Niles Eldredge (2014). “Time Frames: The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria”, p.14, Princeton University Press

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• How does MINDEF intend to reduce uncertainties, enhance understanding, and improve coordination in the region and beyond through defence diplomacy apart from conferences and meetings?

  Low Thia Khiang

  Understanding, Doe, Coordination

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• What held people together was the belief that you're really going to change the world. I think that's the nature of many startups. You believe that what you are doing is going to have a dramatic impact. You might not exactly know how, but you really have a belief. That keeps you going and going through many changes and a lot of uncertainty.

  Ray Ozzie

  Believe, Thinking, Impact

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• Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.

  Edward R. Murrow

  War, Leaving, Survival

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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• Surfing is all about uncertainty. That feeling of taking a risk, that leap of faith every time I jump into the ocean, that paddle out among things unseen — all of these make surfing very special

  Shaun Tomson

  Ocean, Feelings, Surfing

  Shaun Tomson, Patrick J. Moser (2006). “Surfer's Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life”, p.179, Gibbs Smith

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• It might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. Most of us fall into where our feelings are headed while we're quite young. But the beauty of all this uncertainty would be that in the process of exhausting all the possibilities, we might actually stumble unconsciously into the recognition of something that's useful to us, that speaks to a deep need within ourselves. At the same time, I like to think that in order for any of us to really do anything new, we can't know exactly what it is we are doing.

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Fall, Thinking

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• But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.

  Carter Heyward

  Light, Darkness, Risk

  Carter Heyward (1976). “A Priest Forever”, HarperCollins Publishers

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