Guessing Quotes

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!

Sometimes guessing is the best you can do. In the real world, we guess all the time and it serves us well.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.

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.

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

Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

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.

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.

Your past wouldn’t frighten me,” I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. “I’m guessing I’d be more appalled than anything.

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.

I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue.

Okay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news?

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.

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.

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

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

We must distinguish judging from guessing.

You know, what's interesting about Washington...It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second-nature.

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.

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

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

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.

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?

You have a memory chip that small implanted in you,” he verified. I nodded, guessing this was somewhat worse than having cooties.

He landed 10 feet below with a sickening crunch-i'm guessing his enhancements didn't allow him to bounce back up like a ball. we call that a design flaw.

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.

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

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

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

I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

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

I know," she said, guessing my thoughts. "I know exactly how you feel." "Does it get easier?" I asked. Unlike Sydney, Olena had an answer. "Yes. But you'll never be the same.

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.

This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And with Wes right there, holding the door open for me as I walked out into the light.

Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.

Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality.

You’re not making my mistakes, Bella. You sound like you’re scared silly, and I’m guessing it’s because you’re afraid of me.

Guessing isn't knowing.

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!").

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.