Guessing Quotes

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  Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

  Mae West

  Funny, Relationship, Sexy

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Should, Masters

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.108, Penguin

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

  Usama Fayyad

  Real, World, Sometimes

  Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

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• Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

  Scott Adams

  Inspirational, Business, Long

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• Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

  Patrick Ness

  Knowing

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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

  Seth Godin

  Progress, Foundation, Future Progress

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• Guessing has never been widely acclaimed as a good gambling strategy.

  Jan Garavaglia

  Gambling, Strategy

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• History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

  Will Durant

  History, Prejudice, Second Guessing

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• The past is a fog on our minds. The future? A complete dream. We can't neither guess the future, neither change the past.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Dream, Past, Fog

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• My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

  Jude Law

  People, Obligation

  "Jude Law". Book by John McVicar, Alex Hannaford, 2006.

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• Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

  Blake Edwards

  Games, Criminals, Matter

  "Fictional character: Clouseau". "A Shot in the Dark", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• I never liked to be pigeon-holed and I never liked people to think that they know who I am. I like to keep people guessing.

  A. J. Cook

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.

  Bill Toomey

  Easter, Science, Athletic

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• I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.

  Stephen Harper

  Second Guessing

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• I guess I'm still holding on to something that I know will probably never happen, because somewhere deep down inside me, I have this little piece of hope that someday, it will.

  Drake

  Hope, Rapper, Hip Hop

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• We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.

  Orson Scott Card

  Thinking, Lucky, Monkeys

  "Xenocide". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1991.

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• If you don't have the confidence, it doesn't matter what you do, you're always second-guessing yourself.

  Chris Jericho

  Matter, Ifs, Second Guessing Yourself

  Source: www.wwe.com

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• I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

  Katherine Heigl

  Sick, Trying, Want

  "Katherine Heigl On How “Knocked Up” Is Sexist, Ratings Ploys And Mormonism". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.

  Sylvia Plath

  Women, Learning, Laughing

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• The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

  Jerome Bruner

  Education, School, Laziness

  The Process of Education (p. 14)

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• I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'

  David Ortiz

  People, Show Me, Shows

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• If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

  Bob Kane

  Writing, Want, Facts

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• It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Alaska, Half

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing.

  Fred Ward

  Father, Heart, Doubt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you try to start second guessing that, you either get rich or die broke.

  Guy Clark

  Mean, Trying, Things Change

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