Uncertainty Quotes - Page 5

• Just remember that everyone is struggling; everyone is living with fear and uncertainty and it doesn't matter what their politics are.

  Tara Brach

  Struggle, Matter, Remember

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation.

  Mark Batterson

  Spiritual, Destiny, Emotional

  Mark Batterson (2008). “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars”, p.93, Multnomah

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• The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms

  Bruno Latour

  Ocean, Lakes, Islands

  Bruno Latour (2005). “Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory”, p.245, Oxford University Press

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• I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

  E. B. White

  Life, Good Morning, Time

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.148, Cornell University Press

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• When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?

  Noureddine Morceli

  Motivational, Faith, Sports

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• When in doubt, blow something up.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Funny, Writing, Blow

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• In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Knowledge, Knowing, Doubt

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• Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

  Eliot Ness

  Race, Law, Doubt

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• Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Change, Music, Dance

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• The future gets no say in who we are.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Future, Fate, Destiny

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• True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices under conditions of uncertainty, not about assuming plans can remove risk.

  Will Evans

  Choices, Entrepreneur, Risk

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• When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change. The Roman philosopher Tacitus rightly observed that 'the desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.' If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into aliveness, alertness and creativity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creativity, Mean, Safety

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• Meditation is about learning how to rest in uncertainty.

  Andy Puddicombe

  Meditation

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• Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Companion, Explorers

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand

  Antonio Machado

  Long, Decision, Wish

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• I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

  Alain de Botton

  Powerful, Emotional, Thinking

  "Office affairs". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

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• And nothing is, but what is not.

  William Shakespeare

  Lady Macbeth, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 130

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• There is no such thing as zero uncertainty.

  Usama Fayyad

  Zero

  Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

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• I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.

  Brandon Boyd

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.

  Tony Robbins

  Quality, Life Is, Uncertainty Of Life

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• When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Belief, Certain

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.22, Lulu Press, Inc

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• All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

  Ovid

  Love, Life, Fall

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• Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.

  Bill Crawford

  People, Optimism, Worry

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• We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Stupid, War, Gun

  Condoleezza Rice (2011). “No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Graduation, Commitment, Two

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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