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• 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.

  Gregory Maguire

  Math, Hard Times, Two

  Gregory Maguire (2010). “What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy”, p.62, Candlewick Press

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

  Pink

  Looks, Mistaken, Stills

  Song: Fuckin' Perfect

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• I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

  Timothy Dalton

  Stress, Writing, Pressure

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

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Blind, Knows

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• 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.

  Dave Matthews

  Years, Months, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Linda Hogan

  Mother, Knowing Everything, Secret

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• There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.

  George W. Bush

  Differences, Criticism, Strategy

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

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• A miracle worker who can do more with less, pacify rival groups, endure chronic second guessing, tolerate low levels of support, process large volumes of paper, and work double shifts. He or she will have carte blanche to innovate, but cannot spend much money, replace any personnel, or upset any constituency.

  Michael Fullan

  Support, Miracle, Upset

  Michael Fullan (2009). “The Challenge of Change: Start School Improvement Now!”, p.77, Corwin Press

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• 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.

  Wallace Stevens

  Games, Names, Littles

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• I live up in the hills, and I don't have any cable, and I have really slow satellite, so that does it - because being on the Internet is okay, but it takes a long time. I have a prediction that at some point, there will be a backlash. Like at the end of the '60s, there was that back-to-the-land movement, and I'm guessing that people will start consciously saying, "I'm not taking the phone with me," or "I'm only checking email x number of times a day," or "I'm not ever gonna self-Google," for example.

  George Saunders

  Numbers, Phones, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're truly playing improvised music, I don't care who you are or where you come from, you don't know what's going to happen. I feel essentially we really don't know anything anyway, most of the times we're just guessing.

  Hamid Drake

  Care, Where You Come, Feels

  Source: the-attic.net

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• As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.

  Wes Craven

  Long, Scare, Want

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I like it when you buy something and pay with a credit card, they put your credit card on the receipt, but only the last four numbers. Aha! I'm really good at guessing twelve numbers. I can't guess 16 numbers, so thanks for the assistance!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Numbers

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• We shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truthunless we can trust to the human mind's having such a powerof guessing right that before very many hypotheses shall have been tried, intelligent guessing may be expected to lead us to one which will support all tests, leaving the vast majority of possible hypotheses unexamined.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Science, Intelligent, Support

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• There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient, and a random one. In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Taken, Differences, Variables

  "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable". Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007.

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• If you make a decision in your life, even one as eminently logical and self-improving as "Why'd you start washing your hair every day?" and you start getting questioned hourly about it, you're going to start second-guessing yourself.

  Keith Olbermann

  Hair, Self, Decision

  "ESPN: Mea Culpa". www.salon.com. November 18, 2002.

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• Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.

  Don Mattingly

  People, Second Guessing, Managers

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• I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

  Mark Duplass

  Moving, Second Guessing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

  Sarah Manguso

  Moving, Brightness, Remember

  Sarah Manguso (2009). “The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir”, p.191, Macmillan

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• Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

  John Updike

  New York, Book, Cutting

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.216, Random House

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• There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.

  Gordie Howe

  Player, Games, Wish

  Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.

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• 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.

  Richelle Mead

  Doe, Answers, How You Feel

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.683, Penguin

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• There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected.

  Rob Portman

  President, Campaigns, Sniping

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• Guessing isn't knowing.

  Tennessee Williams

  Knowing

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

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• I believe my high school book said I was most likely to become a candlestick maker. Guessing I didn't exactly exude confidence but just goes to show you that your path is yours to choose and make the best of and not for someone else to tell you what you can or cannot be.

  Arlene Dickinson

  Believe, Book, School

  Source: yourmcmurraymagazine.com

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