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93. “What I realized was this: Things don’t go as planned. My parents could plan to enjoy their retirement. I could try to design my life around the effortless creative productivity I so badly wanted, but in the end, plans are only plans.”
David Kadavy
Life Plans, Flexibility, Personal Growth, Expectations, Creative Process, Uncertainty
96. “History is littered with good ideas taken too far, which are indistinguishable from bad ideas. The wisdom in having room for error is acknowledging that uncertainty, randomness, and chance – “unknowns” – are an ever-present part of life. The only way to deal with them is by increasing the gap between what you think will happen and what can happen while still leaving you capable of fighting another day.” Morgan Housel Good Ideas, Room For Error, Dealing Uncertainty, Ideas, Error, Uncertainty
98. “My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they pass, I question things and do not find, one that will answer to my mind, And all the world appears unkind.” William Wordsworth Apprehension Fear, Shadow Clouds, Questioning Life, Anxiety, Doubt, Uncertainty
99. “The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.” Carl Jung Life After Death, Existential Questions, Uncertainty, Life, Death, Uncertainty
105. “I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.” Franz Kafka Uncertainty, Life, Family, Direction, Struggle, Powerlessness
110. “There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good.” John Steinbeck Change, Future, Forces, Reflection, Evil, Uncertainty
111. “A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin’, an’ he got nothing to tell him what’s so an’ what ain’t so. Maybe if he sees somethin’, he don’t know whether it’s right or not. He can’t turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can’t tell. He got nothing to measure by.” John Steinbeck Loneliness, Thinking, Uncertainty, Isolation, Reflection, Truth
115. “What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.” Haruki Murakami Tomorrow, Life, Uncertainty, Body, Journey, Reflection
118. “I’m often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I’m running? I don’t have a clue.” Haruki Murakami Running Thoughts, Distance Running, Personal Reflection, Mindfulness, Uncertainty, Pondering
120. “I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.” Haruki Murakami Writing, Creativity, Thrill, Adventure, Childhood, Uncertainty
Uncertainty Quotes by Famous Authors
93. “What I realized was this: Things don’t go as planned. My parents could plan to enjoy their retirement. I could try to design my life around the effortless creative productivity I so badly wanted, but in the end, plans are only plans.”
David Kadavy Life Plans, Flexibility, Personal Growth, Expectations, Creative Process, Uncertainty
96. “History is littered with good ideas taken too far, which are indistinguishable from bad ideas. The wisdom in having room for error is acknowledging that uncertainty, randomness, and chance – “unknowns” – are an ever-present part of life. The only way to deal with them is by increasing the gap between what you think will happen and what can happen while still leaving you capable of fighting another day.”
Morgan Housel Good Ideas, Room For Error, Dealing Uncertainty, Ideas, Error, Uncertainty
98. “My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they pass, I question things and do not find, one that will answer to my mind, And all the world appears unkind.”
William Wordsworth Apprehension Fear, Shadow Clouds, Questioning Life, Anxiety, Doubt, Uncertainty
99. “The reason for such an “unreasonable” attitude with me is that I am not at all sure what will happen to me after death. I have good reasons to assume that things are not finished with death. Life seems to be an interlude in a long story.”
Carl Jung Life After Death, Existential Questions, Uncertainty, Life, Death, Uncertainty
105. “I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.”
Franz Kafka Uncertainty, Life, Family, Direction, Struggle, Powerlessness
110. “There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good.”
John Steinbeck Change, Future, Forces, Reflection, Evil, Uncertainty
111. “A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin’ books or thinkin’ or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin’, an’ he got nothing to tell him what’s so an’ what ain’t so. Maybe if he sees somethin’, he don’t know whether it’s right or not. He can’t turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can’t tell. He got nothing to measure by.”
John Steinbeck Loneliness, Thinking, Uncertainty, Isolation, Reflection, Truth
115. “What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.”
Haruki Murakami Tomorrow, Life, Uncertainty, Body, Journey, Reflection
118. “I’m often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I’m running? I don’t have a clue.”
Haruki Murakami Running Thoughts, Distance Running, Personal Reflection, Mindfulness, Uncertainty, Pondering
120. “I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.”
Haruki Murakami Writing, Creativity, Thrill, Adventure, Childhood, Uncertainty
