Assumptions About People Quotes

#1. I know I have this judgmental side that I'm often fighting against. But today I recognized the depths of my assumptions about people. What I envision is nothing remotely similar to the reality. Humility hurts. Coming home is disturbing.

Cindy McCormick Martinusen

#2. You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.

Tony Horwitz

#3. Frankly, I'm not responsible for other people's perceptions and what they consider real or fake. We must abolish the entitlement that deludes us int believing that we have the right to make assumptions about people's identities and project those assumptions onto their genders and bodies.

Janet Mock

#4. A wise coach keeps an open mind and does not make assumptions about people. - Jack Canfield and Peter Chee

Jack Canfield

#5. How would your life be different if ... You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day ... You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.

Steve Maraboli

#6. Your imagination is tricking you into making negative assumptions about people based on past experience. Your imagination is running the show, and the score is coming imagination one, you zero.

Nicholas Boothman

#7. I can be a little prickly when people make assumptions about women.

Michael Pryor

#8. Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

Amanda Palmer

#9. People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

Sara Sheridan

#10. Do: LEARN YOUR BIASES: YOUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE WORLD, PEOPLE, AND YOURSELF.

Anonymous

#11. We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'

Mona Simpson

#12. Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' when the people would rule, which was sheer fantasy because it was sheer fantasy because it was based on grossly erroneous assumptions about human nature, as history would repeatedly demonstrate.

David Limbaugh

#13. I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little structure, people make interesting assumptions about the profession.

Sara Sheridan

#14. People do make assumptions about models. That's their issue, not mine. It doesn't bother me because I'm comfortable enough in my own skin - I know who I am.

Lily Cole

#15. To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And The Whale.' But I think that's par for the course if you make something that feels kind of real.

Noah Baumbach

#16. The fate of millions of people - indeed the future of the black community itself - may depend on the willingness of those who care about racial justice to re-examine their basic assumptions about the role of the criminal justice system in our society.

Michelle Alexander

#17. I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions.

Steven Rodney McQueen

#18. The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.

Thomas J. Sergiovanni

#19. The people who whine about Fox News are hypocrites - they say they're totally tolerant, but when they run into someone who doesn't share their assumptions, they say, 'Fox News is evil, and it must be stopped.'

Greg Gutfeld

#20. Daddy got mad when people made assumptions about him, but I liked it. It made me feel someone wanted to know me. Even if they were wrong, it didn't matter. It mattered only that they were trying.

Alicia Erian

#21. Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.

Criss Jami

#22. Charley thought of her father. He'd always told her she should never make assumptions about other people's time or their money, and that's the way she tried to live.

Natalie Baszile

#23. People don't mind positive stereotypes. People don't mind positive assumptions. It's only negative assumptions about them. So their outrage is so arbitrary.

Jim Norton

#24. I had little contact with people outside academia and had formed my assumptions about the rest of the world primarily from watching films and televisions as a child. I recognised that the characters in 'Lost in Space' and 'Star Trek' were probably not representative of humans in general.

Graeme Simsion

#25. There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart.

Meg Ryan

#26. I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.

Eddie Vedder

#27. What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions and not facts. Every man and woman is a mystery unrevealed.

R.M. Engelhardt

#28. Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.

Richard Serra

#29. Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

Gautama Buddha

#30. It was inconsiderate, she thought, how blandly people mentioned the future in the sick rooms. Phrases like next summer were always popping out; people made such assumptions about their own continuity.

Larry McMurtry