Not only do you have to trust the definite, you must also trust the uncertainty.
She'd preferred the uncertainty, if only because it allowed her to remember him the way he used to be. Sometimes, though, she wondered what he felt when he thought of that year they spent together, or if he ever marveled at what they'd shared, or even whether he thought of her at all.
That was how a Salomon bond trader thought: He forgot whatever it was that he wanted to do for a minute and put his finger on the pulse of the market. If the market felt fidgety, if people were scared or desperate, he herded them like sheep into a corner, then made them pay for their uncertainty. He sat on the market until it puked gold coins. Then he worried about what he wanted to do.
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
Uncertainty is the normal state.
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.
Nothing is certain by uncertainty.
Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty.
So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.
Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.
We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
Take cyberspace as an example. We had this wonderful utopian vision of a new home for the mind. What we've reaped isn't cyberspace. It's cyberbia. It's this vast, bland wasteland of vulgar people and trivial ideas and pictures of half-naked starlets. But despite all the uncertainty, has there ever been a more fascinating moment to be alive?
I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people andor artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. . . I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.
The inner experience of fallure is totally different than failure. Going to fallure means 100% commitment - you leave nothing in reserve, no mental or physical resource untapped, you never give yourself a psychological out. Failure means making a decision to let go, to be less than 100% committed, when confronted by fear, pain and uncertainty.
If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
Meditation is about learning how to rest in uncertainty.