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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• I could easily go through all my books and mark the ones that were original, mark the ones that were adapted or pre-published that I've found. I'm guessing though that probably 75% of them are personal events. I just love a personal story.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Events, Stories

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.

  Nestor Carbonell

  Knowing, Not Knowing

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• The producers like to keep people guessing and keep them on the edge of their seats.

  Daniela Ruah

  People, Producers, Seats

  Source: collider.com

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• Tony Blair has to consider very carefully to what extent he can leave Britain, the party and the nation guessing as to when exactly he might go.

  Robin Cook

  Party, Might, Blair

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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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• The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the expert consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Skills, People

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.109, Psychology Press

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• Joss Whedon and all the writers of 'Iron Man' and 'Thor' found a way to keep Coulson saying something that keeps you guessing. I'm really lucky because a lot of people play agents and don't get nearly as much fun stuff to do.

  Clark Gregg

  Fun, Men, Play

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• Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I’d call it a party game, except that it’s a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria.

  Andrew Plotkin

  Lying, Party, Simple

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Whenever I got a shot, the team that selected me, I just promised myself that I would give them something that they wouldn't regret... The Chicago Bears drafted me, and I'm going to make sure they're not second-guessing themselves about that.

  Devin Hester

  Regret, Team, Giving

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• It's mass confusion. I'm guessing on every shot. About the only thing left for me is acupuncture in the brain.

  George Archer

  Golf, Confusion, Brain

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• I follow my instincts and I always think about what movie I would like to see. If I want to see it then I'm guessing that some other people might want to see it as well. I never try to think about what people will love or will like, because when you start to think for other people that's where you lose track of the real motivation.

  Alexandre Aja

  Motivation, Real, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.

  George W. Bush

  Strategy, Hindsight, Second Guessing

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

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• I'm guessing our soldiers are happy to be leaving Iraq. It is no fun being in a country where there's crumbling infrastructure and an ignorant population, but they said they're happy to come home anyway.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Fun, Home

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• It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be!

  Horace Bushnell

  Lying, Believe, Heaven

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.222

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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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• 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

  Heaven, Doubt, Holiness

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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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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• 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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• 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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