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• Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Discovery, Important

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• Confidence is everything. If you start second guessing yourself, you're bound to run into more bad outings

  Trevor Hoffman

  Softball, Sports, Running

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• You get frustrated when you don't win and when you're not successful. You have to keep battling. You don't give up. You don't start second guessing yourself.

  Daunte Culpepper

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Successful

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• I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them. I think if you're a good enough actor, that's the way to longevity in the film business. Keep everybody guessing.

  Christian Bale

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself -- theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.

  Ellen Page

  Hero, Thinking, Evil

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• My instinct is to keep people guessing. I think as an actor your greatest strength is your versatility, I suppose. The blanker the canvas, the easier it is to project the illusion of a character onto it. I think there are many actors who do that very successfully.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Character, Thinking, People

  "The Insider Interviews: Tom Hiddleston". Industrial Scripts Interview, screenplayscripts.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I grew up around gay people my entire life, basically, that’s possibly why I’m quite camp, and some people think I’m gay when I meet them, which I think is awesome. It’s always good to keep them guessing.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Gay, Thinking, People

  "King of Nerds No Fan of Comic-Con" by Emma Pearse, www.vulture.com. July 17, 2009.

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• The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Creative, Lovers

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• I think any start has to be a false start because really there’s no way to start. You just have to force yourself to sit down and turn off the quality censor. And you have to keep the censor off, or you start second-guessing every other sentence. Sometimes the suspicion of a possible false start comes through, and you have to suppress it to keep writing. But it gets more persistent. And the moment you know it’s really a false start is when you start … it’s hard to put into words.

  Elif Batuman

  Writing, Thinking, Quality

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• It's going to be crazy. I'm guessing when we play against the Dominicans, half the field will be Dominican fans and half will be Puerto Rican fans. With all the big-time players in the World Classic, it's going to be huge.

  Carlos Beltran

  Crazy, Player, Fans

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• Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

  Gregory Maguire

  Math, Hard Times, Two

  Gregory Maguire (2010). “What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy”, p.62, Candlewick Press

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• Mistaken, always second guessing, underestimated, look I'm still around.

  Pink

  Looks, Mistaken, Stills

  Song: Fuckin' Perfect

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• I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

  Timothy Dalton

  Stress, Writing, Pressure

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• He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands, and continents. He had made guessing games of it and discovered hidden objects; faces, birds, and fishes. He made mathematical calculations of it and rediscovered his childhood; theorems, angles, and triangles. There was practically nothing else he could do but look at it. He hated the sight of it.

  Josephine Tey

  Heart, Games, Rivers

  Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Blind, Knows

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• I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.

  Dave Matthews

  Years, Months, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.

  Don Mattingly

  People, Second Guessing, Managers

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• I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

  Mark Duplass

  Moving, Second Guessing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

  Sarah Manguso

  Moving, Brightness, Remember

  Sarah Manguso (2009). “The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir”, p.191, Macmillan

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• Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

  John Updike

  New York, Book, Cutting

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.216, Random House

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• There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.

  Gordie Howe

  Player, Games, Wish

  Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.

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• There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected.

  Rob Portman

  President, Campaigns, Sniping

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• Guessing isn't knowing.

  Tennessee Williams

  Knowing

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

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• If you make a decision in your life, even one as eminently logical and self-improving as "Why'd you start washing your hair every day?" and you start getting questioned hourly about it, you're going to start second-guessing yourself.

  Keith Olbermann

  Hair, Self, Decision

  "ESPN: Mea Culpa". www.salon.com. November 18, 2002.

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• There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient, and a random one. In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Taken, Differences, Variables

  "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007.

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