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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
Barbara Jordan
Future
We Cannot
Uncertainty
Cannot
Flee
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Blaise Pascal
Sail
Sphere
Drifting
Uncertainty
Vast
Driven
Within
End
Ever
I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.
Gerhard Richter
Success
Time
Achievement
Other
Indefinite
Variations
More
Uncertainty
No Time
Lead
Boundless
Like
Names
Concepts
Qualities
Concerns
Ideologies
Mastery
Opinions
Conducive
May
Themes
Working
Specialized
Publicity
Things
Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.
Tim Crouch
Good
Beginning
Uncertainty
Good Thing
Investigation
Never
End
Very
Should
Thing
I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
Alain de Botton
People
Negative
Feelings
Think
Way
Married
Uncertainty
Emotional
Powerful
End
Get
Get Married
Want
Certainly
Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
Alphonse Karr
Reality
Regret
Worst
Evils
Uncertainty
Until
Makes
Us
Moment
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
Problem
Smoking
Will
Gun
Cloud
Mushroom
Weapons
Some
About
Uncertainty
Saddam
Smoking Gun
Always
How
Quickly
Want
Acquire
Nuclear
Here
Nuclear Weapons
'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'
Dave Grohl
Time
Conflict
Dark
Remember
Made
Dark Side
First
Tea
Side
Those
Uncertainty
Reached
First Time
Hear
Things
Album
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.
Drew Houston
Love
You
Tolerance
Risk
Uncertainty
Misconception
Entrepreneurs
Blind
Go
Optimism
Expect
Want
Actually
Things
Need
It is hard to say no to PSG - as with all teams capable of winning the Champions League, There is always uncertainty in football.
Eden Hazard
Say
Uncertainty
Winning
Football
League
Always
Capable
Hard
Teams
Champions
Champions League
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
Harold S. Geneen
Will
Charge
Uncertainty
Part
Taking
Always
Process
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Hope
Uncertainty
Refuge
I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.
Jensen Ackles
Out
High
Scared
Uncertainty
Get
Used
Now
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.
Julian Baggini
Mind
Healthy
Live
Mark
Virtue
Indeed
Ability
More
Only
Uncertainty
Facts
Clear
Mere
Terms
Ambiguity
Mature
Precise
Psychologically
Much
Really
Applicable
In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.
Pope Francis
God
Good
Met
Says
Must
Find
All Things
Total
Seek
Touched
Uncertainty
Area
He
Still
Quest
Person
Then
Certainty
Things
Margin
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
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.
Robert Winston
People
Dangerous
Some People
Religious
Some
Religious People
Uncertainty
Both
Deal
Scientists
Being
Certain
Fundamentalist
Fundamentalists
There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.
Rupert Sheldrake
Kind
Uncertainty
Bear
Scepticism
Certain
If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
Stephen Covey
Business
One Thing
Uncertainty
Certain
Thing
Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
Walter Kirn
Life
Worth
Living
Worth Living
Striving
Uncertainty
Attempting
Make
Does
Quite
Gambling
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
William Congreve
Worth
Fear
Our
Worthlessness
Uncertainty
Absolutely
Impervious
Almost
Whether
Certain
My prospects for life, though in a measure shaded with uncertainty, hardship and danger, are very animating and bright. My prospects for another life, blessed be God, are still brighter.
Adoniram Judson
Life
God
Blessed
Danger
Though
Uncertainty
Animating
Prospects
Another
Still
Very
Measure
Bright
Brighter
Hardship
We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
Al Stewart
Love
Down
Peer
Our
Out
Run
See
Uncertainty
Steps
Highway
Days
Come
Reach
How
How Far
Eternity
Far
Turning
Measure
Here
'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.
Andre Aciman
Promised
About
Entirely
Uncertainty
Almost
Soon
Come
Revelation
Quite
Dismissed
Neither we nor our European friends need prolonged uncertainty, and not everything needs to be negotiated before Article 50 is triggered and the exit process is concluded.
Andrea Leadsom
Needs
Before
Our
Everything
Prolonged
Neither
Uncertainty
Concluded
Nor
Exit
Friends
Article
Process
European
Need
I don't think the U.K. should leave the E.U. I think it would be a disaster for our economy, and it would lead to a decade of economic and political uncertainty at a time when the tectonic plates of global success are moving.
Andrea Leadsom
Success
Time
Political
Think
Our
Would
Would-Be
Uncertainty
Economic
Lead
Disaster
Economy
Global
Leave
Decade
Moving
Should
Plates
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