Assume That Quotes

#1. It's our nature to assume that we're important, that we're at the center of things. Maybe we're not. Maybe ... we're just another animal.

Aaron B. Powell

#2. People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

Kate Adie

#3. Purple Cow (SETH GODIN) - Your Highlight on page 68 | location 1042-1042 | Added on Friday, 6 June 2014 10:00:32 Assume that what was remarkable last time won't be remarkable this time. ==========

Anonymous

#4. Indeed, not all attacks - especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin - are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

Hans Selye

#5. I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.

Rachel Billington

#7. He supposed it was inevitable. Dip a person into one particular specialty deeply enough and long enough, and he would automatically begin to assume that specialists in all other fields were magicians, judging the depth of their wisdom by the breadth of his own ignorance ...

Isaac Asimov

#8. No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come,
but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual.
This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt.

Toba Beta

#9. It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state.

Sanford Levinson

#10. She will assume it was me, assume that I have come to make good on my promises.
One of us should.

Christine Fonseca

#11. The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

Lincoln Child

#12. It's everyday for a woman to project a very strong wave of sexual energy through her second attention into a man, for him to assume that the energy he feels is his own.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Don't assume that money, shelter and creature comforts are enough to demonstrate your love. Nothing can replace your presence, your hug, your smile, your touch - you!

Denis Waitley

#14. If there are spelling and grammatical errors, assume that the same level of attention to detail probably went into the gathering and reporting of the "facts" given on the site.

Randolph Hock

#15. We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#16. We all understand that genius doesn't guarantee success, but it's seductive to assume that success must come from genius.

Leonard Mlodinow

#17. We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don't. Neurons do. We decide that this sum total driving us is a decision we have made for ourselves. But it is not.

Rodolfo Llinas

#18. Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.

Victor Davis Hanson

#19. I can only assume that there's only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that's not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.

Cecelia Ahern

#20. it's human nature to assume that when we see a mistake, it's due to defects in someone else's department, knowledge, or character,

Eric Ries

#21. This is the dangerous thing about musicals. Most of them assume that as soon as you find your voice, you'll use it to sing to someone else.

David Levithan

#22. I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one.

Mike Rutherford

#23. You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.

Derek Jeter

#24. The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

Abraham Pais

#25. Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists.

Thomas Aquinas

#26. If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

Scott Hahn

#27. No one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems.

Dalai Lama

#28. It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.

Christopher Darden

#29. [T]he courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior ... The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.

Clarence Thomas

#30. Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

James Harvey Robinson

#31. Steve said, "I don't know. I really don't. All I know is that my life is better when I assume that people are doing their best. It keeps me out of judgment and lets me focus on what is, and not what should or could be." His answer felt like truth to me. Not an easy truth, but truth.

Brene Brown

#32. In a respectful relationship, each person understands, "I am responsible to know what is going on inside me and communicate it to you. I do not expect you to know it, nor will I allow you to assume that you know it. And I will not make assumptions about what is going on inside you.

Danny Silk

#33. If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!

Bill Buxton

#34. Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?

Lee Kuan Yew

#35. It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.

Philip Hammond

#36. Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

Alison Gopnik

#37. People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself

Dalai Lama

#38. It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.

Daniel Radcliffe

#39. If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

Marie Clay

#40. We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.

Isabel Briggs Myers

#41. For no one really knows what color is, where it is, even whether it is. (Can it die? Does it have a heart?) Think of a honeybee, for instance, flying into the folds of a poppy: it sees a gaping violet mouth, where we see an orange flower and assume that it's orange, that we're normal. 39.

Maggie Nelson

#42. Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don't understand this

Lee Kuan Yew

#43. One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

Meir Kahane

#44. History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.

Albert Pollard

#45. We are not made to view things as independent from each other. When viewing two events A and B, it is hard not to assume that A causes B, B causes A, or both cause each other. Our bias is immediately to establish a causal link.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#46. I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something is all smoke and mirrors, but there's that, like, feeling at the back of your mind: What if it's not?

Erin Morgenstern

#47. If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

Noam Chomsky

#48. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.

Douglas Adams

#49. Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

Mitch Albom

#50. We often assume that the question, "How can I be happy?" can be successfully answered without reference to the love of God and our neighbors. And the irony is that if our biggest question is our own happiness, we can never know the God in whom we find our ultimate joy and rest.

Michael S. Horton

#51. Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

Joseph Sobran

#52. I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?

Jessica Biel

#53. I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#54. It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

Anne Fadiman

#55. I've always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it's going to feel like that, to assume that you're going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors - if you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad.

Janina Gavankar

#56. I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.

Damian Loeb

#57. You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

Monica Ali

#58. When you are sitting on a three-legged stool and you've kicked out all three legs, but you're still sitting upright, must you assume that you're so good, you levitate? Or must you assume that you were sitting on the ground all along?

Lydia Netzer

#59. History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.

Frank Rich

#60. I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case.

Debbie Gibson

#61. The mind of the experienced book reader is a calm mind, not a buzzing one. When it comes to the firing of our neurons, it's a mistake to assume that more is better.

Nicholas Carr

#62. I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.

Karen Joy Fowler

#63. It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.

W. Edwards Deming

#64. We smugly assume that we are the tallest humans to ever grace the earth. Quite the contrary. The Cro-Magnon people living thirty thousand years ago were about our size and 10 percent more muscular. Hunting, gathering, when food sources were abundant, was an exquisitely healthy lifestyle.

Arianne Cohen

#65. We should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.

Albert Einstein

#66. Assume that every problem in your life is a lesson to make you stronger. Then you never feel like a victim.

Andrew Matthews

#67. Assume that your reader is tired, bored, and pressed for time.

Lyn Dupre

#68. There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

Agnes Repplier

#69. We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

Paul Hawken

#70. If you're going to run around, Ms. Pelosi, and you're going to say Republicans like the war, then can we also assume that Democrats like killing babies? Put that in whatever it is you smoke, Ms. Pelosi, and have fun with it.

Rush Limbaugh

#71. Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.

Ralph Marston

#72. I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely

Patricia Cornwell

#73. Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

Claire Danes

#74. I'll assume that was a compliment." "It wasn't. It definitely wasn't." "Nevertheless, that is what I'll tell myself." "Fine.

L.G. Estrella

#75. If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#76. If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

Morrissey

#77. Red is wild. She is unsettling. She intrigues. Wear red and other women will assume that you are a predatory vixen who is out to steal their husbands and suck the blood of their children.

Simon Doonan

#78. Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there. This girl is here. This food is here. I think the clever people are the ones who do a little as possible.

Kevin Ayers

#79. The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

Soren Kierkegaard

#80. When we see a good-looking woman with a not-so-good-looking man, we assume that the man must have a good bank balance. When we see a good-looking man with a not-so-good-looking woman, we assume that she must be good in bed.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#81. Dyadic completion," Paul would've told Claire. "The human brain tends to assume that, if there's a victim, there has to be a villain.

Karin Slaughter

#82. I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.

Jenny Lewis

#83. If you assume that the Big Bang happened gratuitously, you're talking about magic, not science.

R.C. Sproul

#84. On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.

Pieter Zeeman

#85. To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption.

Jason Jordan

#86. [We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

Mark Steyn

#87. People do it all the time
assume that they "know" what's going on in someone else's head. That's impossible. And to think it's possible is a mistake. A really big mistake. A life-ruining one if you're not careful.

Jennifer Brown

#88. Sometimes we assume that the new person in our life is better for us because they are totally different from the last person we dated. Only later do we see that we have chosen a different version of the same thing and they both leave us unsatisfied.

Kristen Crockett

#89. It's strange how easily we assume that others must be going in the same direction as us.

A.G. Roemmers

#90. Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.

Jack McDevitt

#91. After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

Elisabeth Shue

#92. I would assume that there is a greater amount of joy for you in being able to write and help produce your own stuff and make a decent living, but not get rich versus always doing the other stuff that you don't write, and make more money.

Julie Delpy

#93. But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box.

Katharine Jefferts Schori

#94. Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical - as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can't exist.

T.H. White

#95. Gratuitous redundancy makes prose difficult not just because readers have to duplicate the effort of figuring something out, but because they naturally assume that when a writer says two things she means two things, and fruitlessly search for the nonexistent second point.

Steven Pinker

#96. Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

Marc Andreessen

#97. We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.

Bob Schieffer

#98. Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic amid inner turmoil, run on an upward trajectory of success and money acquisition at any emotional cost. But these are not rules.

Martha Beck

#99. The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life.

Ian Wilmut

#100. The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

Nicholas Stern