Certainty Quotes

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Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. — Gail Sheehy
With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game,… — Gail Sheehy
I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness. — Bertrand Russell
In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure… — Ayn Rand
There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all respects… — Tony Blair
Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state… — Ludwig von Mises
Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the… — Robert Henri
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment… — Philip Sidney
I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty. — Anthony Eden
To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have… — L. Ron Hubbard
A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support or certainty, to… — Clark Moustakas
Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all. — Jerry Saltz
Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they… — Walter J. Phillips
There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break. — Jack Straw
Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the… — Richard Stallman
It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works. — Edmond Jabes
Rather than a universe of static certainty, at the most fundamental level of matter, the world and its relationships were uncertain and unpredictable, a state… — Lynne McTaggart
Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas. — Frederick Lenz
I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be. — Georges St-Pierre
Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to death, I have… — Georges St-Pierre

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