#guessing

When our hopes for performance are not completely met, realistic optimism involves accepting what cannot now be changed, rather than condemning or second-guessing ourselves. Focusing on the successful aspects of performance (even when the success is modest) promotes positive affect, reduces self-doubt, and helps to maintain motivation (e.g., McFarland & Ross, 1982).... Nevertheless, realistic optimism does not include or imply expectations that things will improve on their own. Wishful thinking of this sort typically has no reliable supporting evidence. Instead, the opportunity-seeking component of realistic optimism motivates efforts to improve future performances on the basis of what has been learned from past performances. ↗

— Sandra L. Schneider

#expectations #improvement #learning #optimism #performance

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#coins #conclusion #courageous #fertile #guess

I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on. ↗

— Jim Courier

#articles #because #else #explain #feeling

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game. ↗

— Blake Edwards

#facts #game #guessing #investigation #matters

'The 17 Day Diet' keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this 'body confusion.' ↗

— Mike Moreno

#call #confusion #day #diet #guessing

He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#guessing #love

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#execution #going #guessing #hitter #just

I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#always #comfortable #different #different personalities #element

Things change all the time, and they'll probably never be the same again. It's 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. ↗

— Guy Clark

#broke #change #condition #die #either

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing. ↗

— Bob Kane

#batman #ever #facts #get #guessing