Guessing Quotes

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called "guessing what was at the other side of the hill". (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)

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

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

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

Jude Law

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

Mae West

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

Alice Hoffman

The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.

Bill Toomey

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

Stephen Jay Gould

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

There is no God,” the wicked saith, "And truly it's a blessing, For what He might have done with us It's better only guessing.

Arthur Hugh Clough

If the prior distribution, at which I am frankly guessing, has little or no effect on the result, then why bother; and if it has a large effect, then since I do not know what I am doing how would I dare act on the conclusions drawn? (Richard Hamming)

Every concept that comes from some comprehensible image, by an approximate understanding and by guessing at the Divine nature, constitutes an idol of God and does not proclaim God.

Gregory of Nyssa

Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.

Meg Cabot

You have a memory chip that small implanted in you,” he verified. I nodded, guessing this was somewhat worse than having cooties.

James Patterson

He landed 10 feet below with a sickening crunch-i'm guessing his enhancements didn't allow him to bounce back up like a ball. we call that a design flaw.

James Patterson

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

Blake Edwards

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.

Fred Ward

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

Greg Kinnear

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.

Jerome Bruner

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

Stephen Harper

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80 percent of being a successful hitter. The other 20 percent is just execution. The mental aspects of hitting were especially important to me. I was strictly a guess hitter, which meant I had to have a thorough knowledge of every pitcher I came up against and develop a strategy for hitting him. My method was to identify the pitches a certain pitcher had and eliminate all but one or two and then wait for them. One advantage I had was quick wrists. Another advantage - and one that all good hitters have - was my eyesight. Sometimes I could read the pitcher's grip on the ball before he ever released it and be able to tell what pitch he was throwing. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them. (Hank Aaron)

I didn't think anyone outside of LA would read Less Than Zero. I thought The Rules of Attraction would be a huge hit. I assumed people would react to American Psycho as a comedy. I thought I showcased some of my best writing in The Informers. And I was totally caught off-guard by the amount of good reviews and bad reviews Glamorama elicited. I've stopped guessing because I'm always wrong. And quite honestly: I don't care. Writing the book is the main thing. Waiting for a reaction: a waste of time. But, obviously, I hope people respond to the book in a favorable way. I don't want people to dislike it. But I don't really mind if they do.

Bret Easton Ellis

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

Rich Mullins

I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away and I'll show you.

Richelle Mead

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

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