Top 1200 Second Guessing Yourself Quotes & Sayings

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

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

For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.

I'm not the tallest or the thinnest - and I think being in shows is a major part of when I stopped second-guessing myself.

Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.

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

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

I've had times when layups didn't go in, you start second-guessing yourself. It's how you come at it and how you react to it.

Favre is smarter than the coaches. Most of those coaches have never played pro football, and they're second-guessing him?

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.

One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

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.

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.

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 hate second-guessing other lawyers because I know that I've tried and lost cases, and somebody could sit there and say, 'Should have done it this way,' and they'd have been right.

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

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.

Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.

The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry

You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself -- theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.

If you start adapting to audiences, you're really second-guessing the situation, and it becomes a bit more like cabaret.

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.

Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.

Confidence is everything. If you start second guessing yourself, you're bound to run into more bad outings

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.

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

Once you've achieved success, and you're making decisions that are working, I don't understand why anyone would be second-guessing themselves.

Second guessing a decision is a waste of time.

I don't want to be influenced as to what I write in the next book, to hear those voices in my head when I'm writing. The idea of second-guessing your reader is dangerous, trying to please some notional reader looking over your shoulder, instead of just yourself.

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.

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

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

I agree with the President that second-guessing is not a strategy, but at the same time, I want to continue the dialogue that ultimately will lead to bringing all of our troops home.

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

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.

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.

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.

My mindset has changed. When I was fighting guys like Glover I was second-guessing myself. Am I the best in the world? Do I deserve to be up here. Now I know it.

Now, I'm so relaxed that I have to make myself nervous. I feel better when I'm second and third guessing myself over everything. I play with the mice in my head, all the time.

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

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.

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.

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.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

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

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

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 that it's a benefit to have distractions because you don't overconsume yourself with what-ifs and you end up second-guessing yourself.

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

I think any start has to be a false start because really there’s no way to start. You just have to force yourself to sit down and turn off the quality censor. And you have to keep the censor off, or you start second-guessing every other sentence. Sometimes the suspicion of a possible false start comes through, and you have to suppress it to keep writing. But it gets more persistent. And the moment you know it’s really a false start is when you start … it’s hard to put into words.

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

When you grow up a fatherless son, in many ways you have to raise yourself. No one tells you what looks good on you, how to carry yourself, or provides the approval. Without a father, you grow up never knowing what you didn't have. There is no intimate model of who you want to become, so it's as if you're always guessing.