From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
The number one thing I urge people to remember is it is all about being scientific about managing strategic uncertainty, while striking… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Trust in my wisdom. I do not make mistakes. Love my uncertainty for it is not a mistake. It is my intent… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“This is the city of uncertainty, where routes and faces look alike and are not. Death will be like that. We will… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress;… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Violence, with its ever-present economy of uncertainty, fear, and terror, is no longer merely a side effect of police brutality, war, or… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“I hate the fact that it obsesses me so much. Who're we gonna end up with? It's a race, and everyone else… — Harriet Evans Copy Share Image
The idea that you try to time purchases based on what you think business is going to do in the next year… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Republicans fear Nancy Pelosi because she has Teflon skin and a spine of steel - and because she is a progressive woman… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen,… — Michael Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty is always uncertain, but the difficulty with people who rely on systems is that they begin to believe that nearly everything… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“We can never fully understand the how, where, and when of anything, even something as simple as boiling water. We have to… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
As a mother, May always reminds me of the end of the school year and the excitement, uncertainty, anticipation, and accomplishment that… — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
It's the uncertainty, the challenge and the willingness to put it all on the line that draws a lot of people to… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
“When you lose your path, you get an opportunity to discover a world you have never known! And better worlds are often… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle states that to determine the precise location of a particle will only speed up the particle. The same goes… — Weike Wang Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty is a certainty in life. Unknown is well-known in life. Uncertainty and unknown gives space for the impossible to become possible.… — Kitty Downer Copy Share Image
“The great lesson here for all imaginatively gridlocked systems is that the acceptance and even cherishing of uncertainty is critical to keeping… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
I think that cynicism is the enemy. Cynicism thinks it knows how things work. "Oh yeah, you know how that works." I… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin The Thread of present Life away to win- What? for ourselves, who know not if… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell them. As the great philosopher of uncertainty Yogi berra… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image