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It's a guessing game. You don't know if this is long term or whether it's not going to be long term.

It's a guessing game. They could have pitched out... . He came through though.

It's a guessing game. And it's better to over-guess than under-guess.

It's his stuff. He doesn't throw any pitch twice. It's kind of like a guessing game out there. I know I was guessing wrong.

It's a very pointed message in a very public forum to someone about to assume the most important seat on the court, ... Whether he heeds it or not, Roberts can't be indifferent that the Senate is upset about the Supreme Court usurping the functions of Congress, second guessing them, and belittling their reasoning.

It's been pretty nice weather, so I'm guessing as soon as it turns cold for a couple days there will be more boats coming out, ... We're busy right now, but we'll be in full swing in about a week or two.

You tend to do all the exercises you enjoy, not the ones you need to do. Your body adapts to specific movement. If you always do what you enjoy, your body adapts and plateaus after about 3 to 4 weeks. But changing up your routine keeps your mind occupied, keeps you guessing, keeps your body guessing and you'll see more results.

The boom broke on the small crane, and the large crane couldn't hold it up. I'm guessing it took 8 to 14 seconds for it to fall.

It's cleverly done. It's very well written, keeps you guessing and is well performed.

It's an absolute guessing game trying to figure out who can thrive here and who will fail. It's almost impossible.

It's what any qualified coach in the world would do, why risk top stars? But we'll keep them guessing until the end too, whether we'll play with one or two strikers.

I want to look better, I'm guessing I'm going to have to eat better and not order pizza too much.

I want the audience to be surprised by my character all the time. I want them to keep guessing about my roles, so I am doing more of such films and when a new director comes with such subjects I jump for that.

It's not a guessing game. Most aquariums are linear you walk on one path, one way. We chose to be nonlinear. You come into a central area, and then you make the choice of where you want to go.

I'm not sure how many she has for her career. But I'm guessing that it's well over 500. It's not unusual for her to have 10 or 11 in a game.

I'm guessing we will try to match as best we can. It will be tougher. The coach is confident in whoever he puts out there.

I'm guessing we'll be a three seed, and I'm guessing we'll probably get to host a game, possibly against Amherst, Rosholt or Marathon.

I'm guessing they are working on a patch. Who knows, though?

I'm guessing that was the big reason I got asked. A lot of guys will not be in midseason shape. Speed might be a factor.

I'm guessing that probably has something to do with it. But still, you're in a community with a quarter of a million people. We have 28,500 students. We run ticket promotions. It's ridiculous to have those small crowds.

I'm guessing it's not going to go anywhere unless there's significant Democratic support.

I'm guessing in all the confusion there's probably some houses that got deleted.

I'm guessing I just got divorced from those kids. And that's not an easy thing. And while I get divorced from those guys on one hand now I accept another group of guys with open arms and I will do my best to do everything I can to help you be better.

I'm guessing at this point the defense will be our strength. They know what it takes to get the job done.

I made some better pitches today. I had a little better snap on the ball. I felt better today than I have in a long, long time. The velocity is back up in the high 80s. But more important, it was getting on the hitters pretty quick. That's what I need to do. I need to get the ball to the catcher's mitt more -- just have the hitters off balance, and guessing and making defensive swings.

I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff. Maybe that's why I'm an actor.

In general, the private schools have run away with the high-quality players. Every year we've lost high-caliber players to the best (private schools). It's a guessing game as far as which kids are going to attend. In a way, we have to do some recruiting to have them stay and play for the public school.

I mean, it's a guessing game, this whole draft thing,

I'm just tired of all the (expletive) guessing games.

I'm just guessing they wanted to take a look at some more guys over there. I really wanted to work on getting my slider down. The last game it was just so-so, and today it was much better. Today, I had a better tempo and it was much better.

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'm assuming whoever gets in a good rhythm and moving the offense, moving chains. I'm guessing that's how they're going to do it.

In this case, I'd doubt it's that much. I'm guessing $10 million.

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.'

I hit driver down No. 9. I didn't have the best lie and I didn't have maybe the best swing at it, but I hit it pretty good. I hit it like 150 yards and that was a two-iron. Sometimes you're just guessing how many clubs you think you need to add to the shot versus the yardage. That's really what it is, guessing the right amount of wind and hoping that you pull it off. It's not a science when it gets like that out there.

In my opinion Utah, last year, could have played with any of those guys and had a legitimate chance to beat them. I'm guessing that none of those guys wanted to play them either.

He's probably going to have surgery, and I'm guessing he's lost for the season, ... He has not had surgery yet -- I think they're still looking at the swelling. But I think they're feeling like in the next two weeks, if everything settles down in the knee, if the swelling settles down, they're going to operate.

The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like.

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

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.

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

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

I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I’m guessing he would have seized on its wistful aspect, pointing out gently and with wry humor that much of what beguiles us is the act of reaching for what isn’t there.

Things change all the time, and theyll probably never be the same again. Its 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.

If he's putting signs down, I know he's thinking in a certain pattern from what I've done in the past with him, and so it's not a guessing game.

I don't want to start second guessing what the impact will be, but obviously it's a positive.

Heavy brush was all through here. So we're guessing you can almost see a trail going up there, and got down to here and started spreading out.

For some conservatives, it was like a cold dish towel across their face, reminding them that, 'wait a second, we thought we were totally supportive of this president, now we know, maybe we have to keep an eye on him.' And, conservative groups have become much more animated and activist and second guessing of the president.

Second guessing a decision is a waste of time.

Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.

I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.

Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

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

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.

You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.

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

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.

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.

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

The magnitude of it is mind-boggling. I'm guessing tens of thousands of homes are gone.

The kid did a good job. Against some of these guys we haven't seen too much, you might be guessing (at the plate).

Well! I feel happy these days. I've started taking a herbal anti-depressant. It's called Saint John's Wort. Apparently it's the best-selling anti-depressant in many places. It's the most popular anti-depressant in Germany... After, I'm guessing, amnesia...

And I'm guessing it was up about halfway -- we were in about 250 feet of water --and it's starting to move a little bit. And the more we got it up, the more it started to show some activity.

The difficulty for the market is guessing which day,

You've got to play a lot of different shots, keeping it down underneath the wind. A lot of times, the hardest part is putting in the wind, because that's a real big guessing game.

The concern we have is that there are a lot of companies that don't see it coming. This is a big elephant. It's coming right at the American manufacturer. Based on input from many sources, we are guessing 40 percent or more of the manufacturing industry doesn't get it.

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

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

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

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

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

Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

Guessing isn't knowing.

That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

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?

You’re not making my mistakes, Bella. You sound like you’re scared silly, and I’m guessing it’s because you’re afraid of me.

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

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

Tony Blair has to consider very carefully to what extent he can leave Britain, the party and the nation guessing as to when exactly he might go.

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.