#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

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

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

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it. ↗

— Antonio Machado

#dreaming #dreams #food-for-thought #guessing #life

But I'm guessing every actor is insecure. ↗

— Sean Hayes

#every #guessing #i #insecure

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#decided #else #everybody #everybody else #figure

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. ↗

— Scott Adams

#blaming #comes #decision-making #guessing #inadequate

I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.' ↗

— David Ortiz

#guessing #here #i #me #people

There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin of the world, life and humans. Science now gives us increasingly complete explanations for those big three. ↗

— J. Anderson Thomson Jr.

#atheism #atheist #biology #cosmology #guessing