Don't Assume Ask Quotes

#1. Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.

Warsan Shire

#2. Letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. We'll do it live ... WE'LL DO IT LIVE! FUCK IT! DO IT LIVE ... look, I'll write it and we'll do it live! Fucking thing SUCKS!

Bill O'Reilly

#4. Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them, - Ding-dong, bell.

William Shakespeare

#5. I don't ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do.
-Greg House

House

#6. Life's too short to live someone else's

Nathan W. Morris

#7. You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?

Barbra Streisand

#8. I'm not human.
I'm better.

Beth Revis

#9. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret ... but you wont find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.

Christopher Priest

#10. Don't assume that God will bless you with what you desire just because He knows your thoughts.You must ask for these blessings and act.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#11. Half the world is redoing its kitchens, the other half is starving.

Don DeLillo

#12. I never planned on being a plumber.

Scott Caan

#13. It is unrealistic to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Happiness is not something one can ask of a child. Children suffer in a way that adults don't always realize under the pressure their parents put on them to be happy.

Adam Phillips

#14. That's pretty hot," he said.
"Punching me in the eye?"
"Well, no. Of course not. I meant the idea of getting rough with you is hot. I'm a big fan of full-contact sports."
"I'm sure you are.

Richelle Mead

#15. Ask if you need to, but don't assume. Sometimes our bad feelings are only assumptions and speculations doing dark dances in our heads.

Bonnie Lyn Smith

#16. Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged.

Kate Griffin

#17. Pull - don't push. Investigate - don't present. Probe - don't pitch. Ask - don't assume. How? Talk less - listen more. Make fewer statements - ask more questions.

Darren Hardy

#18. I don't believe you can reduce the world to a mathematical formula. I start with the world, assume it's complicated, and ask where can I get help from a whole range of disciplines.

Noreena Hertz