#uncertain

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#artists #creative #creative people #distinguishes #go

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#makes #moment #reality #regret #uncertainty

Uncertainty is killing this economy. ↗

— Herman Cain

#killing #uncertainty

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#refuge #uncertainty

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attendant #clubs #dozen #enemy #energetic

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#strong #tempers #uncertain

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#earth #experience #his #how #knows

All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more. ↗

— Oskar Kokoschka

#around #dimension #expression #fundamental #groping

But just as we can all agree on what is red, even if we will never know if we each see it in the same way, so we can all agree - can’t we? - that no matter how confident we may appear to others, inside we are all sobbing, scared and uncertain for much of the time. Or perhaps it’s just me. Oh God, perhaps it really is just me. Actually it doesn’t really matter, when you come to think of it. If it is just me, then you are reading the story of some weird freak. You are free to treat this book like science fiction, fantasy or exotic travel literature. Are there really men like Stephen Fry on this planet? Goodness, how alien some people are. And if I am not alone, then neither are you, and hand in hand we can marvel together at the strangeness of the human condition. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#life #uncertainty #inspirational

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#candle #easily #finds #flame #light