Quotes About Second-guessing

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.

You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.

There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.

But now was not the time for second-guessing, nor was it the time for compassion. Now was the time for death, quick and brutal and terrible.

If you start adapting to audiences, you're really second-guessing the situation, and it becomes a bit more like cabaret.

I hate second-guessing other lawyers because I know that I've tried and lost cases, and somebody could sit there and say, 'Should have done it this way,' and they'd have been right.

During the playoffs, some players have more second-guessing and outright doubt to deal with than others.

Remember: the universe neither judges, nor interprets, nor second guesses your will. If it did, there would be no poverty, no hunger, no suffering.

Sovereigns did not have the luxury of second-guessing or all future commands could be questioned. That could never be. God did not allow his anointed to be wrong.

But I still remained paralyzed by indecision, reluctance, and endless second-guessing...

The most difficult thing about writing, I'm discovering, is not the act of constructing the sentences themselves. It's deciding what to put in, and where, and what to leave out. I'm constantly second-guessing myself. I chose the accident, but I could just as easily have started with any point during my thirty-five years of life before that. Why not start with: " I was born in the year 19-, in the city of -?

Somehow, things never are so good when they're thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?

I think that it's a benefit to have distractions because you don't overconsume yourself with what-ifs and you end up second-guessing yourself.

I feel like I'm adapting to society. I went feral a little bit. I found that when I would get back to the city, if there was any second-guessing about stuff, it would happen.

All my thoughts are second thoughts.

There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected.

But welcome to the world of being a survivor. You make it out alive, and yet you spend the rest of your life wondering woulda, coulda, shoulda.

Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.

What worried him the most, however, wasn't that it was too late. What worried him the most, what really ate at his insides, was the fear that it wasn't too late.

I spent a great deal of my career willingly ignoring the fact that people are participating in it, because it allows me to function without second-guessing it, without thinking, 'Oh, I wonder what people are gonna think of this,' or, 'I wonder what people aren't gonna think of this.'

I kept second-guessing my decision. Half the time, I'd wanted to call every BSC member and say, Just kidding! The other half, I'd felt this sense of relief. Yes, relief. It was faint, but it was definitely there.

I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.

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.

When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.