Top 30 Second-Guess Quotes

You can’t second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

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.

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.

It’s ‘Line of Duty’ – you can’t second-guess anything!

There’s a huge part of me that’s thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.

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.

Life is very short, and if you worry what people think of you, if you second-guess yourself, you’re in trouble.

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.

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

I always second-guess what I am doing.

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.

Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be.

If you don’t second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

I used to be pretty hard on myself, like, if I didn’t like a haircut I did on someone, I would think about it a lot and second-guess myself. But after therapy and a lot of work, I know how to dust myself off a lot faster, and those things don’t knock me down as much as they used to.

I never second-guess myself.

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.

I don’t second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we’ve got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.

I think a lot of times you start to second-guess yourself, especially as a young player, but you’ve got to have confidence that everything will be all right.

I am not going to second-guess my old battlefield comrades from Iraq and Afghanistan; each has his own reason for what he has done.

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.

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.

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

I don’t know if anybody can second-guess what they will do on Capitol Hill.

Police officers must act quickly to seize wrongdoers and obtain evidence while protecting themselves and bystanders. It is easy to second-guess their search-and-seizure decisions in a secure courtroom.

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.

There’s so much control, so many executive producers, so many people looking over their shoulder, so many people trying to second-guess the boss. The space for writers and directors and actors to be creative is zilch.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

I know some brands second-guess working with me because I’m a boy that likes makeup. I think brands shouldn’t just appreciate boys that wear makeup, but they should embrace it. And I feel like some brands forget they need personality. I have plenty of it.

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.