In these times of uncertainty for paper-based currency, I feel more secure in holding gold.
I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.
Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.
We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
In times of uncertainty – whether it’s economic, psychological, emotional, or philosophical – people often say that the only thing we can truly control is our attitudes. If that’s true, then I’m going to spend today walking my 14-year-old dog on a free beach and treasuring the fact that she’s still alive.
Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.
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.
What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty.
Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.
The greatest threat we’ve had to economic growth has been that those in industry don’t know what is expected of them. Rules come that are outside of statutes. Rules get changed midway. It creates vast uncertainty and paralysis, and re-establishing a vigorous commitment to rule of law is going to help a lot.
From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.
There’s three things that are never good for a consumer mindset: uncertainty certainly, concern, and discordance.
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
Uncertainty doesn’t make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
