Uncertainty Quotes - Page 28

• We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Lying, Fall, Ducks

  Title of translation of his novel Im Westen nichts Neues (Nothing New in the West, 1929). Cf. the title of a poem by Ethel L. Beers: All Quiet along the Potomac (1861)

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• Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more than 60 seconds in that state if you can avoid it. Make a firm, immediate decision, and move from uncertainty to certainty to action. Let the world tell you when you're wrong, and you'll soon build enough experience to make accurate, intelligent decisions.

  Steve Pavlina

  Moving, Intelligent, Decision

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• In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.

  O. Carl Simonton

  Hopeful, Faces

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• Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Opportunity, Waiting, Really Living

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• I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.

  Alex Haley

  Dream, People, What If

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• To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

  Ray Dolby

  Anxiety, Darkness, Answers

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• Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

  Bob Goff

  Knowing, Waiting, Ends

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Aug 29, 2014

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• Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Children, Giving, Way

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• When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Pain, Responsibility, Relief

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.370, Transaction Publishers

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• Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

  Gail Sheehy

  Natural Talent, Suffering, Embarrassment

  Gail Sheehy (2013). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, p.349, Penguin

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• When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Motivational, Infinite, Possibility

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.166, Penguin

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• Life is. I am. Anything might happen. And I believe I may invest my life with meaning. The uncertainty is a blessing in disguise. If I were absolutely certain about all things, I would spend my life in anxious misery, fearful of losing my way. But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby and wonders shall never, ever cease.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Believe, Blessing

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Creativity, Alertness, Turns

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.167, Penguin

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• You must eliminate from your thoughts all doubt and uncertainty that you will get well; that you will succeed; that you will gain your point and get what you want. You may have some uncertainty as to methods, but you must have none as to ultimate results. You may not feel certain that you will succeed today, or next week, but you must feel certain that you will succeed sometime.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Get Well, Next Week, Doubt

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• The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.

  Bob Goff

  Jesus, Stuff, Way

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Dec 17, 2014

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• Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Knack, Panic

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

  Lee Iacocca

  Procrastination, Starting Over, Waiting

  "Stop procrastinating in 3 minutes with one simple question" by Chris Winfield, www.businessinsider.com. February 23, 2015.

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• To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Should Have

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• When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

  Bodhidharma

  Past, Worry, Alive

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.75, Macmillan

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• Every intervention of man in the environment around him incurs some risk as to both favorable and unfavorable consequences. Every intervention is taken in the face of partial ignorance as to what its effects will be and involves uncertainty as to the ultimate outcome.

  Gilbert F. White

  Taken, Ignorance, Men

  Gilbert F. White (1986). “Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White”, p.285, University of Chicago Press

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• The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant and questioning, contemplates... his spirit yearns for an answer that will allay the turmoil of doubt and uncertainty.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Our World, Doubt

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.215, Psychology Press

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• The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.

  Eric Hoffer

  Attitude, Doubt, Conviction

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

  Alan Greenspan

  Clouds, Numbers, United States

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• There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Bears, Belief, Kind

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• What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Pain, Waiting, Endurance

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