Quotes about Uncertainty
The Gods throw the dice,and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.They don't care if when you go,you leave behind a lover,a home, a career or a dream.The Gods don't care whether you have it all,whether your every desire can be met through hardwork and persistence.The Gods don't want to know about your plans and hopes.Somewhere they're throwing the dice and you get chosen.From then on,winning and losing is only a question of luck.
- Paulo Coelho
I'm afraid of committing myself," she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.
- Paulo Coelho
Experience has taught me that people only give values to things if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they will get it
- Paulo Coelho
No one could make a choice without feeling afraid. That's was the law of life..and no one could escape.
- Paulo Coelho
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
All things lie dark in possibility.
- William Saroyan
In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery.
- Hippocrates
God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.
- Jerry Bridges
Business is much less transparent than a win in a Grand Prix; in a race you drive over the finishing line first and you have won. In business it is different.
- Niki Lauda
It's a dangerous business, going out your door.
- JRR Tolkien
There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.
- John Updike
The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. . . Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves.
- Pema Chodron