Quotes about Uncertainty

Not knowing doesn't mandate anxiety; rather, it instills confidence, and confidence is crucial to good performance.

Not knowing doesn't mean you're condemned to anxiety; rather, not knowing calls for trust, and trust is crucial to good performance. Uncertainty is essential to the game.

But a philosopher named William James responded that sometimes Clifford's advice is bad strategy. He said doubt is the wrong alternative when three conditions are met: when we have live options, when the stakes are momentous, and when we must make a choice.3

All of which is only to explain how I came by a piece of equipment that most writers have to acquire one way or another: an unusual tolerance, even a preference, for instability. Not that they don't suffer from being unsure of next year's plans or this month's rent. They do. But, unlike many people, they can live with it.

The nature and specifics of the negative depend on the part of the country and the year, but the common thread is: self-doubt.

If I don't know what will happen tomorrow, it could be wonderful.

Having lived his life in the belief that something great could be just around every corner, did he realize for the first time that no more corners could be turned?

Yet, I doubt he would have chosen such a risky life if he hadn't been fleeing an orderly one.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

It's a skill to navigate uncertainty.

Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.

Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.