When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.
It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.
When I make films, I'm very conscious about leaving space for an uncertainty, and for some unexpected things.
Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.
There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.
My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
A review of the science suggests that uncertainty is so high as to raise a good prospect that mandatory green house gas reductions will produce little or no environmental benefit.
Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.
Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
All uncertainty is fruitfull. . . so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand
When we face uncertainty, we encourage everyone to press forward and believe in the values of the product.
An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.
Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
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.
The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.
If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.