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Results are never certain. You may not succeed, but you udo have to try.

Whether we’re looking for information on a diagnosis of cancer or writing a work report, uncertainty is an essential component of the process, not an unwelcome impediment to learning.

…forecasting the future is really just the delicate delineation of life’s uncertainties, helped by consistently glancing backward twice as far as you look ahead.

Studies show that a certain amount of uncertainty can be good for productivity, especially for bright, motivated employees.

…managers who say – or secretly believe – that employees work better under pressure, uncertainty, unhappiness, or fear are just plain wrong.

Many economic choices are gambles. Given our uncertain world, the difficult and interesting choices are always gambles of one kind or another.

…when trying to do something new or uncertain, we rarely know what we don’t know.

…there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.

Every significant choice we make in life comes with uncertainty – which is why students of decision making hope that some of the lessons learned in the model situation will be applicable to more interesting everyday problems.

People prefer the familiarity of the known over the uncertainty of the unknown.