Guessing Quotes - Page 6

• You may not be able to convince everyone around you that you're doing the right thing, but you don't have to subject yourself to endless second-guessing from others, either.

  Mallory Ortberg

  May, Able, Endless

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast. I made a concerted effort, last year and this year, to get a range of characters, just to show people the range that I have, and for them to be able to see the artistry beyond the color.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Character, Color, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it’s really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you’re going to do.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Growth, Important

  "Liev Schreiber On ‘Goon,’ Ice Hockey And Naomi Watts". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• We're guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warrenis guessing that he'll have the opportunity to put capital out at high rates of return, so he's not willing to put it out at less than 10% now. But if we knew interest rates would stay at 1%, we'd change. Our hurdles reflect our estimate of future opportunity costs.

  Charlie Munger

  Opportunity, Cost, Return

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• Speculators are obsessed with predicting: guessing the direction of stock prices. Every morning on cable television, every afternoon on the stock market report, every weekend in Barron's, every week in dozens of market newsletters, and whenever business people get together. In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a purely speculative undertaking.

  Seth Klarman

  Morning, Weekend, Reality

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• A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.

  Keith Devlin

  Writing, Years, Three

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• I'm surrounded by a lot of live-action movie professionals, and I'm just taking their lead, as far as what to schedule to do next. I'm guessing the challenge is going to be not having two characters together, and shooting the live-action without having the animation. In animation, you get to get in between every frame and you work it all out together.

  Chris Wedge

  Character, Two, Challenges

  "Director Chris Wedge Talks EPIC, the Road to Finally Getting a Greenlight, the Oscars, Branching into Live-Action with MONSTER TRUCKS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 15, 2013.

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• I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.

  William Faulkner

  Thinking, Giving, Promise

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.101, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As soon as you start analyzing comedy is when the world starts to fall apart, and we're second guessing it. And we are way too sensitive.

  Jeff Ross

  Fall, World, Analyzing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

  Simon Pegg

  Important, Truthful, Assumption

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

  Hank Aaron

  Successful, Execution, Pitcher

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• Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

  Julian Barnes

  Games, Usual

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.38, Random House

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• Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Guilt, Purpose

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 09, 2012

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• For better or worse, I've become the person the Adams Estate has entrusted to guide Dirk Gently into new mediums and to new audiences. I take that responsibility pretty seriously, which is, I'm guessing, where Ilias's comment about me being a "hands-on collaborator" (code for control freak) comment comes from.

  Arvind Ethan David

  Responsibility, Hands, Freak

  "Nailed It!: David and Kyriazis on 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'". Interview with Keith Silva, comicsbulletin.com. March 8, 2016.

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• My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that. Always keeping [the other prisoners] as murderers, thieves, that sort of thing, which has a certain irony to it, I guess. It's a curious thing.

  Adam Braver

  Government, Political, Criminals

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel like I'm adapting to society. I went feral a little bit. I found that when I would get back to the city, if there was any second-guessing about stuff, it would happen.

  Luke Temple

  Cities, Littles, Stuff

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Self, Political, Revolution

  Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 14, 2012.

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• The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.

  W. H. Auden

  Thinking, Personal Knowledge, Problem

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• Accept the fact that you're an artist and stop second-guessing yourself. Just do it.

  Julia Cameron

  Artist, Facts, Accepting

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• If the beard gives a modifier to seduction, I'm guessing it's not a positive one.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Giving, Beard, Seduction

  "Of Beards and Books: An Interview with Patrick Rothfuss". Interview with Nikki Steele, bookriot.com. November 17, 2015.

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• I've always said it's important to take advice from people who have what you want because otherwise, people are just guessing.

  Mastin Kipp

  People, Advice, Important

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• Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Years, Worry, Use

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• We must distinguish judging from guessing.

  Ernest Sosa

  Judging

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.

  Madeleine Albright

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Online Extra: Madeleine Albright on Democracy and Force". Transcript of the former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, www.bloomberg.com. December 23, 2002.

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• We'll keep guessing at what it might be that he's hiding. But I think the question is, were Donald Trump ever to get near the White House, what would be those conflicts?

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, White, House

  "2016 Presidential Debates", TV Mini-Series (2016– ). "Episode #1.1", www.imdb.com. 2016.

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