Quotes about Uncertainty

It gets darker and darker, and then Jesus is born." That line came back to me, from out of nowhere, and I decided to practice radical hope, hope in the face of not having a clue.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.

Writing a first draft is very much like watching a Polaroid develop. You can't—and, in fact, you're not supposed to—know exactly what the picture is going to look like until it has finished developing.

Life is not a submarine. There are no plans.

Commit to the frightening work of flying blind.

Fear of living without a map is the main reason people are so insistent that we tell them what to do.

Change is the first sign of risk.

Those who fear risk also begin to fear movement of any kind.

The act of trying to guarantee the success of an innovation is almost certain to make it less likely that it will succeed.

Recent research estimates that 40 percent of the workforce has a job that requires innovation, human interaction, and decision making. And for each of these people, every day exposes them to the feeling of being a fraud. Of course you're not sure it's going to work. How could you be?

The more important the project we take on, the more difficult it is to find certainty that our work will succeed before we begin. We can begin with this: If we failed, would it be worth the journey? Do you trust yourself enough to commit to engaging with a project regardless of the chances of success?

This is what tension feels like. The tension of being left behind.