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#uncertainty

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What makes us leave what we love best? What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When we need it most, That sends us into uncertainty for its own sake And holds us flush there until we begin to love it And have to begin again? What is it within our own lives we decline to live Whenever we find it, making our days unendurable, And nights almost visionless? I still don't know yet, but I do it.


Charles Wright


#living #love #poem #poetry #self

The uncertainty of certain feelings is the best way to break them.


Yannick Heywang


#feelings #love #uncertainty #love

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

Uncertainty is caused by a lack of knowledge. Hesitation is the product of fear.


Internet Archive


#uncertainty #internet

Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future would change by definition. This is why Werner Heisenberg's adaptation of the Hays Office—the so-called principle of uncertainty whereby the act of measuring something has the effect of altering the measurement—is of such importance. In my case the difference is often made by publicity. For example, and to boast of one of my few virtues, I used to derive pleasure from giving my time to bright young people who showed promise as writers and who asked for my help. Then some profile of me quoted someone who disclosed that I liked to do this. Then it became something widely said of me, whereupon it became almost impossible for me to go on doing it, because I started to receive far more requests than I could respond to, let alone satisfy. Perception modifies reality: when I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.


Christopher Hitchens


#assistance #bupropion #depression #future #happiness

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


Jensen Ackles


#high #i #now #out #scared

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.


Alan Alda


#avoid #change #dog #go #into

Investors don't like uncertainty.


Kenneth Lay


#like #uncertainty

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.


Blaise Pascal


#driven #end #ever #sail #sphere

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!


Blaise Pascal


#battles #certain #certainty #how #many






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