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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Success
Nothing
Difficult
Introduction
Uncertain
More
Take
Lead
New
Perilous
Hand
New Order
Conduct
Than
Order
Things
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
Hugh Mackay
Life
Relationship
People
Nothing
Relationships
Complex
Outcomes
Uncertain
Perfect
Perfect Life
Messy
Irrational
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman
Future
Uncertain
More
Than
Present
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
Democritus
Life
Success
Battle
Worry
Uncertain
Only
Reached
Children
After
Success Is
Thing
Raising
Raising Children
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill
Genius
Uncertain
Hazardous
True
True Genius
Information
Conflicting
Capacity
Evaluation
Resides
People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence. Don't be shy or feel intimidated by the experience. You may face some unexpected criticism, but be prepared for it with confidence.
Jack Canfield
You
Confidence
Experience
People
Criticism
Face
Hesitant
Intimidated
Those
Out
Be Prepared
Some
Uncertain
More
Feel
Than
Get
Unexpected
May
Confidently
Want
Ask
Certainty
Figured
Who
Boldness
Prepared
Shy
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
You
Problem
Responsibility
Rules
Logic
Solve
Uncertain
Take
Environment
Concentrate
How
Chess
Improve
Your
Teaches
Actions
Helps
Play
Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.
Dalai Lama
Change
Cause
Weather
Believe
Think
Those
Melting
Unprecedented
Some
Uncertain
Pole
Climate
Climate Change
Scientists
Effects
Very
North
North Pole
Listen
Experts
Patterns
Should
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore Hesburgh
Leadership
You
Vision
Uncertain
Trumpet
Very
Blow
Essence
When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
William J. Clinton
Work
Politics
Good
Angry
Conflict
People
World
Tough
Constant
Hurting
Uncertain
Does
Real
Times
May
The Real World
Real World
Frustrated
Works
Cooperation
Necessarily
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
World
Light
Flame
Reputation
Wavering
Easily
Out
Finds
Uncertain
Only
Merit
Looks
Blown
Candle
Which
A woman of faith is fearless. There is no ambiguity, no uncertain trump in her life. She can live a principled life because she studies the doctrine and teachings of a perfect teacher, the Master. She is a noble example to all who know her.
Margaret D. Nadauld
Life
Teacher
Faith
Woman
Example
Master
Live
Fearless
Uncertain
Perfect
Studies
Noble
Know
Doctrine
She
Principled
Because
Trump
Ambiguity
Teachings
Who
Her
No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
Taylor Mali
Future
Day
You
Will
Looking
Back
Our
Tell
See
Uncertain
Only
Never
Obsessed
Steps
Trace
How
Up
Ended
Graduation
Where
Anything
Which
Turn
Speaker
Ever
Need
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
Emma Goldman
Sad
Character
Result
Mind
Radical
Chaos
Indefinite
Possible
Hash
Neither
Uncertain
Ideas
Most
Sort
Nor
Methods
Intellectual
Contradictory
American
Taste
Movement
Which
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane Addams
Life
Good
Our
Ourselves
Secure
Secured
Uncertain
Until
Precarious
Common
Us
Incorporated
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
John Jewel
Knowledge
Dark
Philosophy
Astrology
Uncertain
Geometry
Human
Human Knowledge
In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Challenges
Intelligence
Better
Control
Everyone
Crises
Solving
Uncertain
More
Troubled
Arise
Command
Times
Engage
Means
Need
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
Paul Cezanne
Strong
Isolation
Uncertain
The special sphere of finance within economics is the study of allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in an uncertain environment. To capture the influence and interaction of time and uncertainty effectively requires sophisticated mathematical and computational tools.
Robert C. Merton
Finance
Time
Economics
Tools
Resources
Sphere
Uncertain
Uncertainty
Both
Economic
Computational
Allocation
Environment
Study
Sophisticated
Within
Mathematical
Effectively
Influence
Interaction
Deployment
Across
Requires
Special
Capture
We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
Sean Lennon
Time
Precipice
Transformation
Live
Air
Everything
Some
Pretty
Uncertain
Bleak
Feel
Feels
Major
Like
Whether
Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
Wynton Marsalis
Education
Future
Confidence
Generation
Long
Down
Uncertain
Through
Road
Marches
The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
Adam Davidson
People
World
Argument
Live
Think
Other
Everybody
Bit
About
Uncertain
More
Attacks
Open
Ideas
Without
Where
Want
Engage
Ad
I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.
Adam Rapp
Time
Dramatic
Teenagers
About
Uncertain
Write
Like
Because
I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.
Al Franken
Positive
Time
People
Confused
Consider
Would
Some
Rather
Uncertain
Part
Wrong
Most
Majority
Because
Than
Thankfully
Middle
Even
Position
At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
Al Purdy
You
Age
People
Will
Other
Uncertain
Take
Always
How
Certain
Certain Age
I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
Alejo Carpentier
Music
World
Result
Our
Musical
Everywhere
Would
Would-Be
About
Uncertain
Small
Gladly
Genres
Cuban
Accepted
Island
Heard
Hand
End
End Result
Commission
Being
Century
Producing
Popular
Conquering
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