Challenging Assumptions Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It is not love that transforms the world, but pity.

Clara Winter

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

Steven Rodney McQueen

#4. There is a place, like no place on earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger. Some say, to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hatter. Which, luckily, I am.

Lewis Carroll

#5. If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#6. Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Alan Alda

#7. On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.

Mary Stuart Masterson

#8. Iran is a huge country and much, much more sophisticated than most people imagine ... It certainly has the potential to be at least the way Turkey is to most Americans.

Hooman Majd

#9. Love is reducing the universe to one being.

Victor Hugo

#10. Some say it should come easy if it's real love but that's just not true. Love is never easy - love hurts sometimes. It causes insecurities and jealousies. Relationships take work - love takes work. And happiness requires forgiving others. I forgive you.

A.D. Justice

#11. The church needs lifers and those who can be counted on for the long haul.

Kevin DeYoung

#12. The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time.

Peter Cundill

#13. I don't believe man-made global warming is settled in science enough.

Rick Perry

#14. To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and the leader. If it doesn't, it risks becoming yet another mediocre corporation.

Howard Schultz

#15. A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

Bo Bennett

#16. There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

Vint Cerf

#17. There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.

Russell Simmons

#18. More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

Studs Terkel