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.
SuskindTag: confidence humility explanation uncertainty
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 MacLaneTag: sex mortality uncertainty
I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: life god uncertainty
I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.
Jonathan Safran FoerTag: uncertainty page-80
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 CollinsTag: love uncertainty unrequited unloved
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 SilverTag: wisdom prediction knowledge uncertainty self-knowledge bias
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 PlathTag: marriage uncertainty
Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.
Sylvia PlathTag: uncertainty
People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.
Lionel SuggsTag: truth reality questioning uncertainty
The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.
Carrie RyanTag: death religion wonder living uncertainty
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