Top 270 Guessing Quotes & Sayings

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

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

When it came to foods it was a guessing game.

In general, I think it's an advantage politically to keep people guessing.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

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.

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

But I'm guessing every actor is insecure.

America is the future. I am committed to the States. I'm guessing this is going to be a permanent move.

Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.

When you do a freeze frame, you have the opportunity to find the exact shot that you want - no guessing.

I want to keep people guessing.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

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

Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing.

Second guessing a decision is a waste of time.

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

I am a strange creature. I want to challenge myself and keep people guessing with the roles I take.

We must distinguish judging from guessing.

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

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

Guessing isn't knowing.

I'm not second-guessing myself as much as I used to, and I'm not second-guessing the people in my life as much as I used to.

We're guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warrenis guessing that he'll have the opportunity to put capital out at high rates of return, so he's not willing to put it out at less than 10% now. But if we knew interest rates would stay at 1%, we'd change. Our hurdles reflect our estimate of future opportunity costs.

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.

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

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.

My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.

I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.

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

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

Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.

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

During the playoffs, some players have more second-guessing and outright doubt to deal with than others.

Whenever I work, I'm never really happy. I'm always second-guessing.

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

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

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

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

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

That's the trick in this business: if you want longevity, just keep people guessing a little bit.

I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.

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.

Constantly moving, from side to side. Keeping your opponent guessing. If you stand still long enough, a wrestler is going to shoot for your legs. He's going to see where your legs are at. But, if you keep him constantly guessing, they can't get a bead on those legs. So, constant movement is probably one of the best takedown defenses you could use.

You just can't spend any time second-guessing yourself.

When you can get o-linemen guessing about what you're going to do, that means you're already winning before you start.

Everything with Peeping Tom is kind of a guessing game. It's constantly exhilarating but also exhausting.

I like to keep people guessing.

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

I'll always keep you guessing. I'm living up to the name. It's powerful. That's just what I do.

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

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

Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.

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

You want to keep the defense guessing.

Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

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

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