Assume Positive Intent Quotes

#1. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different.

Indra Nooyi

#2. One week I'll get pancakes at Bongo Room, the next week I go to Kuma's Corner. But I always end up at Coldstone. I love ice cream.

CM Punk

#3. My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

Indra Nooyi

#4. I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.

Bob McDonnell

#5. I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Janis Joplin

#6. Even wondered about the difference?
Autobiography: The usually self-serving accounts of personal accomplishments by a public figure.
Memoir: The usually self-serving accounts of someone whose only accomplishments are often self-pity and vindictiveness.

Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

#7. If the girl could only have spoken to the other boys and girls, the ones that had followed the golden-eyed boy before her, she would have known that there is always something left to lose.

Brom

#8. I am a saxophone player.

Nick Offerman

#9. Communism is Christianity castrated by Ockham's Razor.

Israel Shamir

#10. Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.

Bram Stoker

#11. One of my favorite operations managers often reminds people to "assume positive intent" - that is, when conflict arises between people or groups, assume that all parties are motivated by the same desire to do good by the company.

Anonymous

#12. WHATEVER your especial need may be, you may readily find some promise in the Bible suited to it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

Indra Nooyi

#14. All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

Alethea Kontis

#15. If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

David Belasco

#16. Without hope of reward
Provide help to others.
Bear suffering alone,
And share your pleasures with beggars.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

#17. Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

L'Wren Scott