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Uncertainty Quotes

The greatest threat we've had to economic growth has been that those in industry don't know what is expected of them. Rules come that are outside of statutes. Rules get changed midway. It creates vast uncertainty and paralysis, and re-establishing a vigorous commitment to rule of law is going to help a lot.

Growth Commitment Law Uncertainty

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

People Law Gentleman Uncertainty

Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.

Job Happy Uncertainty Thrive Person

Hundreds of investors ask me questions each year about the dilemmas they confront. Their worst problem? Uncertainty. They are traumatized and become emotional or confused to the state of inaction. Even worse, they try to solve a short-term problem in a way that hurts them financially in the long run.

Me Uncertainty Confused Problem Year

The precariat faces chronic uncertainty about what to do, about what incomes to expect, about state benefits that might be their due, about their relationships, their homes, and about the occupations they can realistically expect.

Uncertainty Relationships Expect

In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil for 25 years, and he was always getting onto me, a scientist. He was a great fan of quantum uncertainty, epistemology in science, the lot.

Gregory Benford

Science Great Me Uncertainty Quantum

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

Love Optimism Uncertainty Blind You

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

Sail Uncertainty End Within Driven

Wall Street, in the main, hates uncertainty, which manifests itself in depressed share prices of companies whose prospects lack 'visibility.' But where the market can err is in confusing uncertainty with risk.

Uncertainty Wall Street Risk Share

My students are often asking me, 'What do you think are the most important qualities for a writer?' And one thing I always tells them is that it's helpful to be willing to sit in a space of uncertainty. There are entire years, especially with novels, where you really don't know where the project is going.

Laura van den Berg

Space Me Uncertainty Think You Know

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

World Uncertainty You Messy Need

Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.

Uncertainty Investment Risk Return

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Truth Truth Is Uncertainty Delay

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

Uncertainty Comfortable Become More

Major organizational changes create uncertainty.

Irene Rosenfeld

Uncertainty Create Changes Major

For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.

Good Great Men People Uncertainty

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Power Law Lawyer Uncertainty

'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.

Uncertainty Revelation Come Almost

In these times of uncertainty for paper-based currency, I feel more secure in holding gold.

Gold Uncertainty Feel More Currency

In the midst of global recession, in the face of uncertainty about what's going to happen next, film looks for inspiration to real people.

People Face Uncertainty Looks Real

Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is dangerous in the fundamentalist scientists.

People Uncertainty Dangerous Deal

We talk a lot in Congress about how we're going to encourage more development in renewables, and we put in place a subsidy that's good for two years. Then Congress argues and bickers over whether or not we're going to extend it. As a consequence, nothing happens because we've put so much uncertainty into the prospect of these subsidies.

Good Uncertainty Place Nothing Talk

There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof.

Joseph Stiglitz

Uncertainty Mindset Modeling Proof

The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

Condoleezza Rice

Uncertainty Gun Smoking Problem Want

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