guesses

If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they__l never guess that you never understood the question in the first place.

She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops_ feeling them hit her body_ trying to guess where one would land next. The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably headstrong child a lot less curious about nature.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

I want to __hink_ that I have all the answers. But if I __hink_, I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I __hink_ yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess.

The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.

Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform.