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Uncertainty Quotes
Living with what isn't settled.
These quotes explore uncertainty from a scientific angle - measurement limits and indeterminate values - alongside broader worry about institutions holding steady. It shares ground with Fear quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
No weather forecaster can tell you for sure when to wear a rain slicker, stock up on canned goods, or evacuate a city that's in a cyclone's path. All forecasters can offer is their best guess at the atmosphere of the future, whispered by the simulated blue marble and wrapped up in uncertainty.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends call me a 'pace-setter.' Sometimes I am impatient, I think, but you must be fast and flexible in business because uncertainty is the only certainty in life.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Investment
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- Nov 07, 2020
To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
In response to the recession, the Obama administration chose to emphasize costly, short-term fixes - ineffective stimulus programs, myriad housing programs that went nowhere, and a rush to invest in 'green' companies. As a consequence, uncertainty over policy - particularly over tax and regulatory policy - slowed the recovery.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like.
- Nov 07, 2020
The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020