Never Assume Quotes

#1. I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.

Tom Verlaine

#2. That was the thing about the Goodnight world. No matter what the label said, you could never assume anything only worked like magic.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#3. If we do not have a vision before us of where we are headed, we will assume that the status quo is normal, and that we and our cultures and our societies are "only human," without ever realizing that we have never seen normal humanity, in our lives.

Russell D. Moore

#4. Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies.

Caitlin Doughty

#5. Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.

Jessica Zafra

#6. The ability to dream, be brave, and love, is never guaranteed, but must always be assumed.

Andrea T. Goeglein

#7. Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours.

Rich Mullins

#8. The disaster at Johnstown was one that need never have happened and a powerful reminder that it can be terribly dangerous, even perilous, to assume that because people hold positions of responsibility they are therefore acting responsibly.

David McCullough

#9. Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.

Willie Mays

#10. I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.

Jane Green

#11. It had taken her a long time to realize that a prison sometimes isn't a prison at all. Sometimes, it's simply a door you assume is locked because you've never tried to open it.

Sarah Addison Allen

#12. If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.

Criss Jami

#13. Never Assume Always Ask for Verification

Marieke Stoop

#14. With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

Andrew Solomon

#15. Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar.

Jeff Cooper

#16. Each love dopes you in its own way. Never assume that each ecstasy will be the same!

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

#17. Never assume that others have understood exactly what you mean.

Steven Redhead

#18. I know I shouldn't introduce my own memoir with this amount of insecurity, but my personal life philosophy is always to assume the worst, then you're never disappointed. BAM! Highlight that previous sentence, baby!

Felicia Day

#19. Daisy gave her a speaking glance, and her sister grinned. "Never fear," Lillian continued, "eventually we will succeed in infiltrating London society, and then we'll marry Lord Heavydebts and Lord Shallowpockets, and finally assume our places as ladies of the manor.

Lisa Kleypas

#20. 'I believe that you will never know victory because you already assume you have it. And that, my son, will be your undoing.' He's still smiling when the gray-eyed man shoots him in the head.

T.J. Klune

#21. Never expect, never assume, never ask, and never demand. Just let it be. Because if it is meant to be, it will happen, the way you want things to be

Un Known

#22. I have never heard anyone refer to any of my brothers as a nice guy ... I'm going to assume you really meant he's a pain in the arse but you like him anyway against your better judgment. - Malina MacGregor

Michelle M. Pillow

#23. You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.

Ellen DeGeneres

#24. I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

Don Johnson

#25. New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.

Brooks Atkinson

#26. I beg of you ... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

Gustav Mahler

#27. The best way to learn the value of good interface design is to use lots of interfaces - some good, some bad. Experience will teach you what works and what doesn't. Never assume that a painful interface is "just the way it is." Fix it, or wrap it in

Marijn Haverbeke

#28. Why is it that we have a tendency to lazily assume other Christians have been the kind of dedicated, motivated, responsible, knowledgeable experts on Bible doctrines that we have never cared enough to become?

Len Smith

#29. I would assume the case will never be closed.

Richard M. Helms

#30. You've been in long enough, Grayson. Never assume malice if you can explain it with lack of planning.

Marko Kloos

#31. Amiel was always sure to spend the holidays with me. I assume it's to prevent me from feeling like the typical chick on the side that never gets the holidays.

Jessica N. Watkins

#32. Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

Don Roff

#33. I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

Oscar Wilde

#34. We should never judge what we don't understand and we must never assume we understand until we truly do.

S.D. Tanner

#35. It was my time to assume ascendency. My powers were in-play and in force. I told him to forbear question or remark; I desired him to leave me: I must and would be alone. He obeyed at once. Where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails.

Charlotte Bronte

#36. Never assume anything, expect the unexpected, be ready for everything all the time. And

Gary Paulsen

#37. You assume that my previous sexual encounters were completely fulfilling, but you're wrong. You gave me what I've never had - love and sex together. You're the only one who has ever been my lover in the true sense.

Sylvain Reynard

#38. A single action could derive from many motivations. I should never assume.

Rachel Hartman

#39. Never assume. Ask.

Hlovate

#40. We all assume that we have our tomorrows to look forward to, but we never truly know what's waiting just around the corner.

Carole Matthews

#41. We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.

Malcolm Gladwell

#42. Never assume that someone likes you by their sweetNess.Sometimes you are an option when they are bored

Prince Simus

#43. I think one must take responsibility for one's actions and one's decisions. But one should never take
one should never assume that everything that happens for the good is achieved by one's self alone.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#44. Their laughter seemed to have turned into low whispering now. It never ceases to amaze me, the things they find interesting, amusing or unusual. I can only assume they've led very sheltered lives.

Gail Honeyman

#45. If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

Ouida

#46. I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics.

Danielle Dax

#47. Never assume you know where someone else is coming from.

Blake Crouch

#48. Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

Dinesh D'Souza

#49. What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least for full-time younger people M.B.A. programs - and assume you are ready to manage.

Henry Mintzberg

#50. The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.

Thomas Merton

#51. Never assume you understand the odds of things. I

Scott Adams

#52. All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

Theodore Bikel

#53. Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system.

Charlie Munger

#54. I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

William Gibson

#55. For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#56. The "called" get so puffed up with how important they think their service is to God's success, they assume God will compensate for their lack of parenting skills. A short study in sociological history will reveal this isn't true, never has been true, and likely never will be true of God.

Linda Rios Brook

#57. Never assume that you can make it alone. You need the help of the Lord. Never hesitate to get on your knees in some private place and speak with Him.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#58. People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

Brian Eno

#59. Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people

LeCrae

#60. I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!

Joseph Morgan

#61. You could return to that same hive a thousand years later and there would be just the same perception of tomorrow as never being any different. Humans are completely different. We assume tomorrow is another world.

Douglas Coupland

#62. Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.

Brian Tracy

#63. A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.

Damian Pettigrew

#64. You assume you would be in darkness without light only because you have never been without the sun.

Cydney Lawson

#65. I heard John Wells say something really smart, many years ago. He said, "Assume your audience is really intelligent. Assume that they are really smart, and tell your story that way." So, for me, it's about never assuming that they will go away because they're not entertained.

Veena Sud

#66. my personal life philosophy is always to assume the worst, then you're never disappointed.

Felicia Day

#67. Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.

David McCullough

#68. Never ASSUME, because when you ASSUME, you make an ASS of U and ME.

Felix Unger

#69. Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work.

Alan Watt

#70. I think any actor will tell you that they always assume they'll never work again, so every job becomes important.

Patrick Fabian

#71. Rule number three: Never assume.

Anne Fortier

#72. Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

Hugh Hopper

#73. People who have never been through any sort of shit always assume that they know how you should react to having your life destroyed. And the people who have been through shit think you're suppose to deal with it the exact same way they did. As if there's a playbook for surviving hell.

Katja Millay

#74. It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.

Bruce Cockburn

#75. We must never assume that local practice conforms with state theory.

James C. Scott

#76. Never assume malice where stupidity will suffice.

V.A. Jeffrey

#77. Either these - unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Dwight L. Moody

#78. I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future.

Lionel Suggs

#79. What we assume, what we have never clearly thought out, controls us.

Morton T. Kelsey

#80. You know what happens when you assume things?"
I left out a sigh. "You make an ass out of you and me."
...
"No, you just make an ass out of you. Me, I would never be this assy

Tara Sivec

#81. It's easy to say that people focusing on the bad is what makes them miserable. What's not easy is to take a life full of misery and find the joy. While there may be moments of levity, never assume they can make me truly happy.

Leah Alvord

#82. Never assume you're safe, and never, ever tempt the Fates by announcing that you think you're safe.

Rick Riordan

#83. I never sweat about work. I just assume work's coming.

David Koechner

#84. They would assume she was a boy, because in her plain trousers and hood she looked like one, and because when people were attacked it never occurred to anyone that it might have been a girl.

Kristin Cashore

#85. I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven't actually read it.

Rachel Held Evans

#86. Never assume you are alone, because you never truly are. Only when your life has surely ended and your loved ones have forgotten you is when you are gone. Gone from this world and the next.
Sleep is when you are most vulnerable. It's a sanctuary and a curse; how you perceive it is up to you.

Mandi Lynn

#87. When you are doubt with someone on how they feel don't pretend that you know what they were thinking, never assume yourself as you know how they feel when you really not at their shoes at all.

Jinnul Jr.

#88. The Crown. Place it upon your head and you assume a different post-tranquil yet radiating assurance. Never show doubt, never lose your dignity beneath the crown, or it will not fit. It will seem to be destined for one more worthy. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emporers crown themselves.

Robert Greene

#89. People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

Robert Greene

#90. We always assume someone else will come to the rescue, but it's never us. Surely somebody will have the decency to be the hero. Right? It doesn't work like that. Not when everyone assumes someone else will do the right thing.

Jeff Goins

#91. Never assume the obvious is true.

William Safire

#92. I've never smoked crack. I've never done most things, drug-wise. But I assume that the experience I had watching Lost is the experience that crack addicts have smoking crack.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#93. [On Oscar Wilde:]
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.
[Life Magazine, June 2, 1927]

Dorothy Parker

#94. One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything. They believe, they work hard, and they prepare- but they don't assume.

Mike Krzyzewski

#95. They (the Rothschilds) have never dreamed of being ashamed of their wealth nor of disguising their way of life, no more than they have ever failed to assume their roles and responsibilities as Jews.

Guy De Rothschild

#96. Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.

Stanley Hauerwas

#97. Never assume you can survive the future because you've survived the past. Everyone thinks that, and they've all been wrong eventually.

Daniel Abraham

#98. I've never been on a bike," I say. "I mean, I've been on a bike but not a motorcycle."
"And why is that?" he asks.
"Bugs. They get in your mouth, right? That's just gross."
Chris makes a face.
"If you ride around with your mouth hanging open, I assume that could be a possibility.

Summer Lane

#99. Whenever pastors assume people in their congregation know certain things, they miss opportunities to teach. If a pastor makes assumptions year after year, then a whole generation has never heard [that truth] for the first time. If we assume too much, we communicate too little.

Andy Stanley

#100. Rule number one: never assume your mate spends all her time in the kitchen.

Nicky Charles