Guessing Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's always good to keep people guessing.

  Gore Verbinski

  People

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• The yen is trading where it's trading because people are guessing about people's future interest rates, dollar and yen and about the future growth potential of the economies. And, if this policy works, then the yen will probably strengthen.

  Jamie Dimon

  People, Growth, Dollars

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I'm guessing the most efficient way would be to transfer an awful lot of technology, but also direct aid to deal with climate emergencies already underway. Hillary [Clinton] has already said $100 billion a year would be appropriate.

  Bill McKibben

  Technology, Years, Climate

  Source: thinkprogress.org

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• My ambition is to keep the audience guessing... that is my path to a long career.

  David Oyelowo

  Ambition, Careers, Long

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.

  Sarah Lacy

  Nice, Intensity, Microscopes

  "The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World’s Least Social People" by Sarah Lacy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like.

  George W. Bush

  Said Life, Might, Cia

  "Bush upbeat on Iraq in talk to U.N. / President dismisses concerns about spread of violence" by Dana Milbank, Colum Lynch, www.sfgate.com. September 22, 2004.

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• Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Book, Reading, Habit

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• For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Criminals, Legal System, Second Guessing

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• The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.

  Selima Hill

  Success, Mistake, Daydreaming

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• You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's going to end up, and you're hoping and guessing. But, when people trust you and get involved, based on that trust, it's a really nice feeling to be able to have everything pay off.

  David Ayer

  Nice, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

  Julia Glass

  People, Sometimes, Virtue

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• I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, People, Singing

  "Joan Jett and Cherie Currie: The real 'Runaways'". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2010.

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• Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know whats going to happen next.

  Pete Carroll

  Teacher, Fun, School

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• David Arnold's writing is both heartfelt and hilarious. You will fall in love with Mim, even as her grand journey will keep you guessing. Mosquitoland reminds us that sometimes imperfect is just perfect.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Falling In Love, Writing, Journey

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• For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

  Umberto Eco

  Poetry, Joy, Three

  Umberto Eco (2012). “On Literature”, p.41, Random House

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• The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

  George Polya

  Science, Creative, Mathematics

  "Induction and Analogy in Mathematics". Book by George Polya, 1954.

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