Top 100 Second Guess Quotes
#1. Trust your heart and embrace the journey. You may make a wrong turn but your heart will get you back on the right path. Just keep making choices and don't second guess yourself.
E'yen A. Gardner
#2. People who to back and chastise themselves, or second guess themselves, for making a wrong decision or a weak decision continues to set themselves up for failure in future decisions simply because they don't trust themselves.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#3. What is the truth is that every one of my films is a film that I'd love to go see, and I think that's very important because I always think it's a mistake to make movies for other people, or to make them for a demographic, or try to second guess an audience.
Peter Jackson
#4. If you were to second guess your decision to book some time to visit an Indian community, that would be a reservation reservation reservation.
Brian Regan
#5. Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.
Nathan Myhrvold
#6. I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.
Chino Moreno
#7. In the arts of covertcy, it is death to second-guess oneself.
Jacqueline Carey
#8. there is the truism, so ably articulated by Luther in his response to Erasmus on the will, that the task of the preacher is to preach God's Word, not to second-guess what the practical problems such causes may
Andrew David Naselli
#9. Never second guess yourself. Or do, maybe. Whatever you feel good about.
Dan Florence
#10. I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.
Chet Faker
#11. You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.
Mariano Rivera
#12. If you have wonderful moments, don't second-guess them, just enjoy them.
Martin Short
#13. Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second-guess yourself.
Tommy John
#14. I'm not one of those people who write all the time. Sometimes I'll go several months without writing anything. I'll sometimes second guess myself and wonder if I'll ever write another song.
Warren Haynes
#15. Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is
Rob Pike
#16. I don't know if anybody can second-guess what they will do on Capitol Hill.
Montel Williams
#17. I can't. If I do, I will second guess myself and nothing would get done. I'd stay in one place. I'd let my fear get me.
Celia Mcmahon
#18. I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
Kate Walsh
#19. The mind is a great and powerful thing, bisected with hallways of darkness and corners of light. Memories can alternately fill your life with joy and happiness and cloud every moment with nightmares and fear, making you second-guess all of the good things and wonder if they were ever real.
Tara Sivec
#21. Often wrong, but never in doubt. Once you decide what you need to do and how to go about it, you can't afford to second-guess yourself. You just do it." The
Ilona Andrews
#22. I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
Garry Trudeau
#23. I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.
Taylor Swift
#24. All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.
David Bowie
#25. Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions
Muhammad Ali
#26. My best advice to all living people is to keep searching. That person is out there. If you have to think about it, or second guess what you do have, it isn't love. Keep looking. Keep searching - because that person does exist. All you have to do is find them. And when you do, you'll know.
Scott Hildreth
#27. You'd think we're never going to die, the way we cower and second-guess and fret over each little action.
Johnny B. Truant
#28. But when a smart, gorgeous, feisty girl entered your life, you didn't ask questions, you didn't second-guess, you took her. And I'm taking her.
Jeannine Allison
#29. Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?
Karen Thompson Walker
#30. Second-guess [myself]? Yes, I do. I question everything I do every step of the way. Once I make the decision I'm almost blinded by believing in it, and then I usually hate everything I've done.
Tom Ford
#31. The only thing that made me second-guess confinement to the island was pussy.
C.D. Reiss
#32. The zeitgeist is ever-changing. If you try second guess what people want, you'll miss it.
Nick Frost
#33. I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don't ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something.
Lauren Conrad
#34. Don't ever second-guess a strong feeling that you have. Trust your gut.
Allison DuBois
#35. It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong.
Bill Scott
#36. It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.
Christopher Darden
#37. It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's a lot easier than acting because you're orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes you're trying to second-guess what people want.
Paddy Considine
#38. You really have to let me fight my own battles. You can't constantly second-guess me and try to protect me. It's stifling.
E.L. James
#39. to second guess your preferences and tastes based upon how others may interpret them is to unduly deny yourself well-earned freedom.
Joseph R. Lallo
#40. When people don't trust you, they may walk with you but they second guess every step you take- don't believe what you say is what you mean...
Assegid Habtewold
#41. If you want to build an open source project, you can't let your ego stand in the way. You can't rewrite everybody's patches, you can't second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control.
Rasmus Lerdorf
#42. As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.
John Spratt
#43. Rebel Heart changed everything. First of all, it drove me insane - and made me feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. It made me second guess everything, because suddenly I thought, 'Oh god, everyone's heard all these demos.'
Madonna Ciccone
#44. Don't hesitate and second-guess yourself. Just be the best you can be in every step you take toward your goal.
Lorii Myers
#45. Why can't we resist the urge to second-guess and evaluate each other? ... Sometimes I wonder if the final judgment will be a breeze compared with what we've put each other through here on earth. p 225
Sheri Dew
#46. You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
Ralph Bakshi
#47. I always say what's on my mind. No need to second guess with me.
Joy Fielding
#48. I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.
Joel Edgerton
#49. Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)
Billie Joe Armstrong
#50. You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.
Lyle Lovett
#51. The temptation to second-guess is strong. But I must remember one thing.
Life is simple.
You are healthy or you are sick. You are faithful to your wife or you aren't. You are alive or you are dead.
I am alive.
Greg Iles
#52. Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't second-guess an audience, if you want to be successful, you have to write stuff people like.
Catherine Tate
#53. You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.
James Lovelock
#54. You never have to second guess a person or your feelings and instincts about that person if you pay attention to their actions, not solely their words - actions always speak louder.
Jody Watley
#55. Good can be a stifling word, a word that makes you hesitate and stare at a blank page and second-guess yourself and throw stuff in the trash. What's important is to get your hands moving and let the images come. Whether it's good or bad is beside the point. Make art.
Austin Kleon
#56. We grow as best we can under the circumstances given us. What good does it do to second-guess ourselves years after the fact? Better that we simply try to understand why we are as we are and then better ourselves by learning from that.
Terry Brooks
#58. I don't go back and read my own stuff too much, but there are times where I second-guess myself and said I could have done something different, like a line of dialogue.
Jason Aaron
#59. I'll never second guess the things that I have done. I've got too much left to say and too much to become.
Alex Gaskarth
#60. Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.
Helen Reddy
#61. There's always a voice inside your head, and a lot of people second guess it. It can tell me very crazy things, but I will walk willingly into its arms.
Atoosa Rubenstein
#62. Exactly,' the queen said. 'I've been where you are, and I know how difficult it is. You second guess the things you do; you second guess everything he does. You wonder over every conversation, trying to read into the breaths between sentences. It's exhausting.
Kiera Cass
#63. The myth is that women and their families don't have to make trade-offs to have an 'extreme career'; they absolutely do. How you prioritize your life and career is your choice. Once you make a decision, stick to it; don't always second-guess yourself.
Angela Braly
#64. I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That's really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don't think it's appropriate for me to second guess.
Ben Bernanke
#65. The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.
David Gilmour
#66. The universe likes SPEED. Don't delay, don't second-guess, don't doubt..
Rhonda Byrne
#67. I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way.
~Train Heartnet
Kentaro Yabuki
#68. She never seemed to second-guess her thoughts.
Me, I second-guess everything.
E. Lockhart
#69. One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me ... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
Taylor Swift
#70. Established actors will challenge you if they don't agree with the way you are taking it, and you have to argue it. But with a younger cast, they are more likely to wonder whether what they are doing is okay instead of trying to second guess the director. That helps push you.
Lenny Abrahamson
#71. I think that we're our own worst enemies in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to doing work where you're criticized a lot or doing work where there's a lot of hater directed at you; and to not constantly second-guess yourself.
Jessica Valenti
#72. Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.
Louis L'Amour
#73. If you are doing what you love then you're doing what is right. Desire and passion resonate with your body, mind and soul. When you're passionate you don't question, judge, criticize, second-guess, or doubt. It's that passion that will fuel the fire to overcome challenges.
Layne Beachley
#74. Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.
Stephen Levine
#76. Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.
Bill Gates
#77. Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.
Michael Jordan
#78. People shouldn't second guess God. If everything happened for a reason, it was usually too difficult to figure out what that reason was. Better to just accept things as they were, deal with them and enjoy the weather when it came, stay inside when it rained.
Barbara Morgenroth
#79. Trying to second-guess Tegan was like trying to track a tornado.
A tornado he had no business chasing.
Lisa Kessler
#80. If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.
Don Mattingly
#81. The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
David Bowie
#82. The wonderful thing about Clint is you can never second guess how he is going to react to anything.
Paul Haggis
#83. Julian is a very dangerous hunter. One of our best. Second to your father, he is perhaps the most powerful Carpathian alive.
I guess we aren't considering you, Savannah said loyally, truthfully.
Christine Feehan
#84. Because all writers are human beings first and writers second, my guess is that any advice for living with a writer is about the same as advice for living with a plumber or a refrigerator salesperson.
Clyde Edgerton
#85. I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.
Wes Moore
#86. My dad was in the Second World War with General Patton. He won medals for bravery, but he came home quite damaged, so he was a handful. He told us some terrible stories, and I guess you'd say he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Jerry Hall
#87. I don't want anyone to ever put himself or herself in a box of, "I lost my second chance!" Because life brings you ebbs and flows, and if you miss out on this second chance, guess what, you're going to get another one if you decide that you're ready to have one.
Bob Harper
#88. I guess what I'm trying to say is, I wouldn't give up a second with you for all the months of being lied to and manipulated by him, as insane as that sounds. That's all. The end.
Kylie Scott
#89. A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.
Tommy Lasorda
#90. I guess sometimes it's not so much about how long you've known someone, but about what you've been through together.
S.J. Watson
#91. That night's show was watched by ten million people, so I guess that director at The Second City who said the audience "didn't want to see a sketch with two women" can go shit in his hat.
Tina Fey
#92. It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#93. I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first.
Peggy Noonan
#94. We don't really have a song or anything." I pondered that for a second. "I guess we've failed as a couple in that regard."
She scoffed. "If that's our biggest failing, then I think we're doing okay.
Richelle Mead
#95. She looked at me for a second and said, "Oh, never mind. I guess it's true what Mom said? That you've led a sheltered life?"
I said I thought the description fairly apt.
Susan Hubbard
#96. Gert: What ... what just happened?
Chase: I don't know, but guess who totally stole Cookie Monster's glasses!
Gert: Whew, for a second there, I was worried we almost learned something.
Chase: Ooo, look at me! I'm a big fluffy nerd!
Brian K. Vaughan
#97. Ah, critics! How unforgiving they are toward anything that isn't, in some special way, known only to them, absolutely first-rate. Do they ever guess, I wonder, how much energy and guts and sheer talent it takes to be second-rate?
Robertson Davies
#98. I guess that's a big problem with working with computers - you've got the luxury to keep tweaking the songs until the last second and beyond. So I don't think I'll ever have that feeling, unless I'm the one finishing the track.
David Macklovitch
#99. I did everything I could do and tried as hard as I could. In light of how I putted, I guess second place will do.
Cristie Kerr
#100. So I guess I'm ready to ... start dating. I want to get married again. Have a family." Ethan leans forward, causing Fat Mikey to jump off his lap. "I see," he says. I look at the floor for a second. "Right." Risking a peek at Ethan, I add, "So we should probably stop sleeping together.
Kristan Higgins
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