#uncertain

The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you’ll never succeed. ↗

— Dannika Dark

#ability #confidence #damaged #damaging #doubt

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#maturity #uncertainty #uncertainty

Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#waiting #uncertainty

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#uncertainty

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#human-nature #soul #uncertainty #nature

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. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#technology #uncertainty #technology

I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#high #i #now #out #scared

Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty. ↗

— John Boehner

#around #business #business community #businesspeople #businessperson

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#anticipate #cannot #get #more #something

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#refuge #uncertainty