Quotes and Sayings About Guessing
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You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.
-- Alice Hoffman -
But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,--- O! its quite beyond what you can understand.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
-- Blake Edwards -
If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
-- Bob Kane -
Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.
-- Charles de Lint -
I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue
-- Christine Maggiore -
Okay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news?
-- Cindy Gerard -
The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.
-- Criss Jami -
I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'
-- David Ortiz -
Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.
-- Don Mattingly -
As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.
-- Dwight Yoakam -
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.
-- Greg Kinnear -
Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.
-- Guy Clark -
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
-- Hank Aaron -
Christianity, Christ, heaven, hell, the judgment, sin, holiness, God,--these, and whether they be true, or false, and our personal relations to them, whether they be right or wrong, are things to know about, not to be doubting or guessing about.
-- Herrick Johnson -
My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.
-- Jude Law -
Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.
-- Julia Glass -
I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.
-- Katherine Heigl -
Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.
-- Mark Duplass -
Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.
-- Mark Twain -
Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.
-- Meg Cabot -
You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.
-- Michelle Moran -
Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.
-- Nick Clegg -
We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word every now and then.
-- Orson Scott Card -
Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.
-- Phyllis Schlafly -
Mistaken, always second guessing, underestimated, look I'm still around.
-- Pink
