Uncertainty Quotes - Page 8

• [Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

  Elie Wiesel

  Madness, Said, Certainty

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Surrendered people understand that they can’t always change a situation, especially when the door is shut. They don’t try to force it open. Instead, they pay attention to their own behavior, look at the situation at hand, and find a new, different, and creative way to get beyond the obstacles. They are comfortable with uncertainty.

  Judith Orloff

  Hands, Doors, People

  "7 Habits Of Surrendered People". omtimes.com. April 6, 2014.

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• These are human beings with real lives and the uncertainty and the fear that any of them face right now could be ended at a stroke if we had all the candidates for prime minister simply say that the right to remain here is not in question and I call again upon Theresa May and on the current prime minster to do that. That would be the humane thing to do and I even at this stage hope that that's a direction they will take.

  Nicola Sturgeon

  Real, Would Be, May

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I grew up in the South Bronx, raised by my grandmother, who scrapped and scraped to make sure I had a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I was painfully aware of what it was like to live with limited resources and a certain level of uncertainty.

  Joy Bryant

  Grandmother, Limited Resources, Levels

  "Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 17, 2015.

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• External means of escape like alcohol, drug use, and even overeating are a means of pushing uncertainty away and covering it up temporarily. And they may feel comforting for a moment, but I don't need to tell you that eventually they will cause more trouble than they ever solve.

  Tara Stiles

  Mean, Drug Use, Alcohol

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• There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones from which we can learn the most.

  Tara Stiles

  Focus, Lessons, Sober

  Tara Stiles (2012). “Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free”, p.21, Harmony

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• Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I'm sure somebody did, but that person's head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy, fear, paranoia, guilt and uncertainty. Celebrities can be born overnight. Writer's can't. Writers are made - forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities - over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when you begin is not the same writer you become.

  Chuck Wendig

  Writing, Moon, Joy

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• Creativity is an unending exercise in uncertainty.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Creativity, Exercise, Unending

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• When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Terror

  "Q & A with Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee". Interview with Claire Kirch, www.teachingbooks.net. September 9, 2010.

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• We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and perhaps at the end, even our civilization. This realization is traumatic and the first reaction to trauma is denial. Since there is some remaining scientific uncertainty, a natural response is to deny that change is occurring. This is natural but it is very dangerous.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Sea, Civilization, Islands

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• I'm suggesting that principles meant to deal with uncertainty that occurs naturally can be useful to manage the uncertainty that characterizes any new idea.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Ideas, Principles, Deals

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Asking, Answers, Faces

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer. The decision-making systems here are meant to deal with the reality that decisions about innovative ideas will rely on patterns and intuitions. The best venture capital organizations deal with this challenge by staging investment, actively participating in startups they fund, tying decisions to learning as opposed to artificial dates on the calendar, and assembling a diverse team of decision-makers.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Team, Reality, Organization

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The number one thing I urge people to remember is it is all about being scientific about managing strategic uncertainty, while striking the important balance between being thorough and being flexible.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Numbers, People, Balance

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• 70 percent of India's imports of oil and oil products are imported from abroad. There is uncertainty about supply. There is uncertainty about prices. And that hurts India's development.

  Manmohan Singh

  Hurt, Oil, India

  "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

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• The human condition is what it is. We can see beauty and wonder in the world, but we also face imminent death and uncertainty, and we often need to sidestep the idea of time and communicate with each other, not with words but with a sense of community and union. I don't want to make an overreaching statement, but I think that's the function of culture.

  Justin Adams

  Thinking, Ideas, Community

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Managing the creative process means selecting the best people and then letting them do their work. That means nurturing. It also means, from time to time, creating drama - even uncertainty - so that the creative environment has an edge to it, a charge, and does not run out of steam.

  John Kao

  Running, Drama, Mean

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• Rather than managing by clarifying events, the creative process may require raising the level of uncertainty. Sometimes this can be done by issuing a creative challenge that has resonance in that it inspires the team to activity.

  John Kao

  Team, Creative, Challenges

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• There is more uncertainty than usual about job futures because computers are replacing more and more human intelligence, and globalization is proceeding at an accelerating pace.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Jobs, Usual, Pace

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• All we know about Jesus is what someone else wrote down... so really one should say, "Here is what someone wrote down that they said Jesus said..." this isn't uncertainty on purpose, just plain speaking.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Jesus, Purpose, Said

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Skywhale is ambiguous. I think she is beautiful, but a lot of people think she is grotesque. You are drawn in and repelled at the same time, and it has to have that dynamic. My work has a certain element of abject mutation, uncertainty and darkness. Even she is dark - I mean she has ten breasts.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Beautiful, Mean, Dark

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that's what happens to all surgeons, I think. There's a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Doctors, Self

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• We've seen that in the past that where you've had uncertainty, and even where the Fed is raising rates, Treasurys rise as everybody heads for safety.

  Gary Shilling

  Past, Safety, Feds

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• We're in a pretty tumultuous world, and there's a lot of uncertainty. Treasurys are where people go as one of the few safe havens in the world.

  Gary Shilling

  Safe Haven, People, World

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Basically, markets don't like uncertainty.

  Nomi Prins

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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