Quotes About Speculation

The older you get, the more theories you make up about things.

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

Oh! said Lydia stoutly, I am not afraid; for though I am the youngest, I'm the tallest. The rest of the evening was spent in conjecturing

How much more must an imaginist, like herself be on fire with speculation and foresight!

I was standing with my back to the door, and I saw Connie's eyes go wide. "Be still my heart," Lula said, looking past me, through the window to the sidewalk. I figured they were looking at either Johnny Depp or Ranger. My money was on Ranger.

The warily silent Hughes has protected his secrets better than his sister has: no one can use his words against him. But everyone can—and does—speculate about his motives.

Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.

If I go out with my girlfriends, no one has an issue, but if I put up a post with a male friend or I'm seen chatting with a co-star, there is unnecessary speculation. What wrong am I doing that I'm being treated this way?

The film industry has always been unpredictable! It is like the stock market really.

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.

If you look back to the most spectacular blow ups in history, you can always tie them to a couple things: They were extraordinary complicated strategies that maybe even the practitioners themselves didn't understand, and they were overleveraged.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.

The motto of the old order in the City of London was, 'My word is my bond,' but the financial crisis revealed a culture quite alien to that heritage. The stewards of people's money were revealed to have been speculators with it.

News organizations would best serve the public by sticking to the facts and the news. Speculation should be minimized.

It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.

Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

Buying only what you know can end in disaster. Just think about Enron's employees and business partners, the 'locals' who bought lots of its stock because they thought they were in the know.

When valuation confidence falls, it means that stock markets are perceived as overpriced.