Top 60 Guessing Quotes

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

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.

For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n’ roll. From experience, I’m guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band.

Every time people try and define me, it gets battered around. I like to keep people guessing.

I think it’s really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you’re going to do.

We need variations, variations in not just attempt but in flickers’ attempts as well. I mean, a flicker needs to use different angles, pace to keep the opposition defence guessing.

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

It is impossible to know what people will like. No market research, formulas will help, it’s best to stop guessing.

Things change all the time, and they’ll probably never be the same again. It’s 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.

It’s good that people have been surprised at the direction Broadchurch’ has taken. That’s what you want, to keep people guessing.

I like to keep people guessing.

You want to keep the defense guessing.

For the longest time, I was always like a guy that people would think they went to high school with. They’d be like, ‘How do I know you?’ After, we’d play a guessing game. I’d say, ‘I’m an actor,’ and they’d go, ‘Oh, what have you been in?’ I’d list my credits, and they wouldn’t really remember me.

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.

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

On NBC, MSNBC and Hulu, you can size and cut clips to whatever length you want. Do online clips affect the TV market? I’m guessing not really.

I like to keep people guessing.

When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you’re earning – well, that’s interesting, that everyone knows what you make.

On Monday and Thursday, I eat fewer than 500 calories a day; then I eat like a pig for the other five days. You ‘surprise‘ the body: keep it guessing. I got the idea from a BBC documentary about this Indian man who seemed about 138 years old and said his secret was severe calorie restriction.

You have to surprise opponents, keep them guessing. Doing the same thing over and over again without variation will not work.

I was seven years old when ‘Creepshow’ came out, and I’m guessing I was around 10 when I saw it for the first time on VHS. The opening theme reminds me that there are five stories to be told, all so different, and the process of telling a scary story is a dark, glorious trip.

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.

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

The great thing about being an actor in a film is that you’re able to start knowing exactly where you’re going to finish and really paint something in between. You can work to know the arc you need to build. Whereas in television, it is open-ended, and you’re constantly guessing. There are pros and cons to both.

History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen – next week, next month, and especially next year.

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

I may be going out on a limb here, but I’m guessing Howard Finkel does not get a lot of chicks!

When you’re watching a Hitchcock movie, you, for most of the movie, are playing the guessing game. What’s the endgame? What’s the plot? How are these people involved? It’s the best way to tell the story, and as a viewer, that’s what you want to experience.

I don’t think I have any set image, and I don’t want one. If I think I’m getting a particular image, I try and break it. I find it very important to keep the audience guessing and keep them on their toes.

One of the weird things about being a designer is guessing what the world will want about a year in advance of when they will want it. It becomes almost a psychological test in a way – how do I feel now and how do I want to feel then.

Alexander Payne is one of those directors who is completely in charge and knows exactly what he wants, which is really fun. It’s fun when a director is very specific. He knows totally the tone that he’s going for. It makes it easier than if everyone’s just guessing and trying to figure it out.

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

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.

I want to keep people guessing.

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.

Where typically the cops are generally the good guys, ‘The Red Road’ blurs the lines intelligently and shows corruption from all sides of the law. It provides unpredictable drama where the audience is kept guessing about how these characters will each choose to act.

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

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

Certainly, I look for different characters ’cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don’t like to get typecast.

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

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

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

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

I’m constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I’m doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, ‘I know what his next book is about.’

I like keeping people guessing. I like to have fun with them wondering if I’m sane or not.

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.

I think if you write from your own gut, you’ll come up with something interesting, whereas if you sit around guessing what people want, you end up with the kind of same schlock that everybody else has got.

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.

Unless there is one master gene for yield, which I’m guessing there is not, engineering for yield will be very complex. It may happen eventually, but through the coming decades, we must assume that gene engineering will not be the answer to the world’s food problems.

When it came to foods it was a guessing game.

Writing plays, I’ve always felt a little like I’m guessing – less sure of what’s good and what’s not good. I think that’s because it’s not a complete work of art.

You want to have fun and try new things but also shock your muscles with new workouts so that you keep your body guessing and get the maximum results from your workout.

When people mention our solo projects, people start guessing: What will Rose do? What will Lisa do? I enjoy watching fans speculate.

I believe the path to a long career is to keep the audience guessing. Daniel Day Lewis is my absolute hero from that point of view. I literally will pay to see anything he does because I know it’s going to be something different than I have already seen.

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

Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is forecasting, as is selling a stock for no apparent reason. Indeed, nearly all capital decisions made by most people are unconscious predictions.

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 what’s going to happen next.

I’m guessing that ability to withstand peer pressure and adhere to one’s values might translate to the kind of backbone necessary for a successful lifelong relationship.

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

Inside every TV star is a movie star screaming to get out, and Donna Frenzel, with whom I’m guessing you’re not instantly familiar, made George Clooney a movie star once and for all in the first ten minutes of his fifth feature, 1998’s ‘Out of Sight.’