Blake Edwards
Director, Producer
"Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game."
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Guessing
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Rich Mullins
Musician
"We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything."
Elvis Presley
Singer, Actor
"Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing."
Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"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."
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"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?"
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"The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works."
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"Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out."
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"I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly."
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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."
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"Are you going to deliver whatever threat Avari sent you with, or are we going to have to start guessing?" Tod said. "I gotta warn you, I'm insanely good at charades."
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"To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest."
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"Guessing isn't knowing."
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"Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress."
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"Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality."
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"If you're truly playing improvised music, I don't care who you are or where you come from, you don't know what's going to happen. I feel essentially we really don't know anything anyway, most of the times we're just guessing."
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"This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind."
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"The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child."
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"Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual."
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