Guessing Quotes - Page 7

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

  Criss Jami

  People, Mad, Worst

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.30, Criss Jami

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

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Merit, Doe, Reason

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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

  Dwight Yoakam

  Artist, Focus, Opinion

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Ideas, Poetry Is

  "The Victorian Age in Literature". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch I: The Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies, p. 24, 1913.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Listen, young people, I understand narcissism - clearly. But at least I have the decency to hate myself. And that's what's missing from the young people. They don't have the debilitating self-loathing and the second guessing.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Self, People

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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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• 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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• 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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