Quotes About Future Uncertainty

#1. The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of people are no longer cursing the darkness and have started lighting candles and doing positive things.

Paul Tagliabue

#2. Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

Alison Croggon

#3. It's all in your head," Genevieve said.
I know," said Alyss, and despite the traumas of the past , the uncertainty of the future, she wouldn't have given up this moment for anything.
"Isn't it wonderful?

Frank Beddor

#4. A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

Jonathan Sacks

#5. The future vibrated with uncertainty. I had failed. I had ignorance. I had hope.

Sean Ferrell

#6. I'm immortal. You consider the future because one day you'll die. I don't have that uncertainty." - Kiaran

Elizabeth May

#7. When the future is fogged and ahead lays opportunity but risk, it is better to tread a careful path through the uncertainty than to wait for the mist to clear, if it ever does.

Anonymous

#8. To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.

Karen Thompson Walker

#9. When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

Bodhidharma

#10. Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.

Edward R. Murrow

#11. One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

Edward Teller

#12. Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.

Evan Meekins

#13. The future is uncertain ... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

Ilya Prigogine

#14. Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone? If we can't embrace uncertainty do we miss the point of love?

Mark Z. Danielewski

#15. When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

Mohsin Hamid

#16. The future would come, full of war and uncertainty, but I would not be facing it alone. I had love and work, friends and a people. I had a place to stand.

Rachel Hartman

#17. Forecasts vary in horizon, from a few seconds up to a few days in financial markets, compared to from one to several months for macro variables. We have to provide uncertainty intervals around the central forecasts to indicate the extent to which we are unclear about the future.

Clive Granger

#18. The future is never fixed, but always in flux until the moment it meets with the present.

Mindee Arnett

#19. Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future ... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

Eric Hoffer

#20. Each generation searches their memories for time lost, feels the urgent exigencies of the present, and worries about the uncertainty of the future. Akin to preceding generations, how we live, the choices we make for surviving and loving, is our story.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#21. Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

Jonathan Alter

#22. The model of competitive equilibrium which has been discussed so far is set in a timeless environment. People and companies all operate in a world in which there is no future and hence no uncertainty.

Paul Ormerod

#23. Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty.

Bill Jensen

#24. Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Try to keep your thoughts in the present, for the future we will never know and the past we may never understand.

Jeffrey Fry

#25. Changes occur and expectations change. Reality brings new possibilities, while destroying some too. It's true: the future is uncertain.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#26. For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

Barbara Jordan

#27. Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission.

Bill Jensen

#28. The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Seneca.

#29. he was seeing the eyes of youth looking at the future with no uncertainty or fear.

Ayn Rand

#30. Remember: don't let uncertainty about your future paralyze your present.

Stefanie Weisman

#31. If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

Hazel Henderson

#32. It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.

King James I

#33. You can't prepare for the details of every single possible thing that might come your way in the future, because the future is uncertain.

Auliq Ice

#34. Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ...

Alan Greenspan

#35. Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty.

Bill Jensen

#36. Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#37. When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply understand the choices that were taken, the roads that were walked, and that there are no guarantees to an unseen future.

Lionel Suggs

#38. Planning for the future is like going fishing in a dry gulch; Nothing ever works out as you wanted, so give up all your schemes and ambitions. If you have got to think about something - Make it the uncertainty of the hour of your death .

Sogyal Rinpoche

#39. We live in a very uncertain world, and I think that uncertainty of itself generates an environment which we should not make a decision that deprives future generations of the deterrent effect that the nuclear weapons have provided for us and for almost all of my life.

Des Browne

#40. The future is certain. It is just not known.

Johnny Rich

#41. The intellectual ... must try never to forget the arguments of the adversary, or the uncertainty of the future, or the faults of one's own side, or the underlying fraternity of ordinary men everywhere.

Raymond Aron

#42. Major barriers to successful planning are fear of change, ignorance, uncertainty about the future, and lack of imagination.

John C. Maxwell

#43. The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.

Faith Baldwin

#44. The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#45. And so, it is always the case that the past is irreparably land-locked, and the future has yet to land. And here we are, living out our lives on the precariously thin line which separates the two.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#46. Information, then, teaches you about the world. Sometimes it does so by reducing your uncertainty about future events, and other times by enlarging your perspective.5

Thomas C. Redman

#47. If our future generations were much wilier than us,
then it might be them who have led us all this time,
to make decisions which fit to their pre-existence,
left us live in the world of uncertainty or by faith.

Toba Beta

#48. It is foolishness to want what never was or will never will be, lament the passage of time, and live in fearfulness of an uncertain future. The moods generated by regret including depression and self-loathing congeal in our sentient consciousness creating the painful landscape of the self.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#49. In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

Jonathan Sacks

#50. At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

Mason Cooley

#51. ...the future is closed to us; were it not, life would be insupportable, as only uncertainty admits of hope

Stanley Michael Hurd

#52. These are hard and uncertain times we're living in," he said. "You never know what will still be here tomorrow. That's why we must take joy every day in what we do have, so it's something we can carry in our memories when things change.

Jaye L. Knight

#53. I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty.

Craig M. Mullaney

#54. The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.

Libba Bray

#55. The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.

Winston S. Churchill

#56. Change is neither good nor bad. It only creates a different situation.

Daniel Egger

#57. To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency - how to accurately anticipate the future.

Daniel Burrus