Instead Of Assuming Quotes

#1. Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.

Barbara Corcoran

#2. Look for smart ways around a problem or faster ways to resolve them. Make effective use of the people around you instead of assuming you have to do everything yourself.

Scott Berkun

#3. They encouraged me to always look for the good in people instead of assuming the worst and trying to find fault.

Richard Branson

#4. The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

Lev Grossman

#5. A few weeks before the jubilee began in 2002, Queen Elizabeth died, and the public outpouring of grief and affection, with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for hours to pass by her coffin, showed how widely and deeply loved she was.

William Shawcross

#6. In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools that are developing these skills.

Linda Darling-Hammond

#7. I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.

John Taylor Gatto

#8. God never gives us more than we can handle. Everything that comes our way is coming our way so that we can grow and evolve.

Debbie Ford

#9. Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

Feist

#10. I think every film actor secretly wants to be a rock star as well; just that part of the job which requires the extrovert in you. Even if you've become an actor because it's your way of hiding in plain sight, there's still part of you which has that craving.

Ben Barnes

#11. One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.

Timothy Keller

#12. I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

Billy Joel

#13. James caught and measured the size of hundreds of wild, foraging buff-tails in and around Southampton, and found that the average size and tongue length varied greatly depending on which flower he caught them on.

Dave Goulson

#14. In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

Cesare Pavese

#15. Lose your temper and you lose the fight.

Margaret Atwood

#16. O the blest eyes, the happy hearts,
That see, that know the guiding thread so fine,
Along the mighty labyrinth."
-from "Song of the Universal

Walt Whitman

#17. When you assess something as a problem instead of as something to simply be accepted as the way things are, you are assuming there is a potential resolution.

David Allen

#18. I'm not going to assume liberals are stupid, as they do with conservatives. No, I'll attribute it instead to more fraud and deceit.

Rush Limbaugh

#19. I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

Brett Favre

#20. But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.

Markus Zusak