Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world.

Suskind

Mots clés confidence humility explanation uncertainty



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I Don’t Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I don’t know why death holds a so sweet lure since it would take away my Body: I don’t know that I wouldn’t deny my Christ, if I had one, three times before a given cockcrow: I don’t know on the other hand that I would: I don’t know whether honor is a reality in human beings or a pose: I don’t know that I mayn’t be able to think with my Body when it is in its coffin.

Mary MacLane

Mots clés sex mortality uncertainty



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I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.

Robert A. Heinlein

Mots clés life god uncertainty



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I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Mots clés uncertainty page-80



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That it's no good loving me because I'm never going to get married anyway and he'd just end up hating me later instead of sooner.

Suzanne Collins

Mots clés love uncertainty unrequited unloved



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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Nate Silver

Mots clés wisdom prediction knowledge uncertainty self-knowledge bias



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And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at all.

Sylvia Plath

Mots clés marriage uncertainty



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Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.

Sylvia Plath

Mots clés uncertainty



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People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.

Lionel Suggs

Mots clés truth reality questioning uncertainty



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The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.

Carrie Ryan

Mots clés death religion wonder living uncertainty



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