Top 100 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. 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
#4. Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.
Willie Mays
#6. 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
#7. Each love dopes you in its own way. Never assume that each ecstasy will be the same!
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
#8. Never assume that others have understood exactly what you mean.
Steven Redhead
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. I beg of you ... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
Gustav Mahler
#12. 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
#13. You've been in long enough, Grayson. Never assume malice if you can explain it with lack of planning.
Marko Kloos
#14. Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.
Don Roff
#15. We should never judge what we don't understand and we must never assume we understand until we truly do.
S.D. Tanner
#16. Never assume anything, expect the unexpected, be ready for everything all the time. And
Gary Paulsen
#17. A single action could derive from many motivations. I should never assume.
Rachel Hartman
#19. Never assume that someone likes you by their sweetNess.Sometimes you are an option when they are bored
Prince Simus
#20. 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
#21. Never assume you know where someone else is coming from.
Blake Crouch
#22. 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
#23. Never assume you understand the odds of things. I
Scott Adams
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people
LeCrae
#27. I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!
Joseph Morgan
#28. Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.
Brian Tracy
#29. 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
#30. Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
David McCullough
#31. Never ASSUME, because when you ASSUME, you make an ASS of U and ME.
Felix Unger
#32. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. We must never assume that local practice conforms with state theory.
James C. Scott
#37. Never assume malice where stupidity will suffice.
V.A. Jeffrey
#38. I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future.
Lionel Suggs
#39. 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
#40. Never assume you're safe, and never, ever tempt the Fates by announcing that you think you're safe.
Rick Riordan
#41. 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
#42. 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.
#43. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. Rule number one: never assume your mate spends all her time in the kitchen.
Nicky Charles
#48. One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.
Melissa Rosenberg
#49. Never assume greatness is for someone else. Imagine every day that you too can do great things. Have the courage to take the challenge, make the mistakes, and move forward.
Brandi Chastain
#50. Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.
Ralph Marston
#51. Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.
John Adams
#53. The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
Abraham Pais
#55. Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't - some people do lead enchanted lives - but odds are that it will. Some time.
Robin McKinley
#56. Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.
Dave Barry
#58. Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn't do.
Donald Rumsfeld
#59. Never assume you are not attractive enough, and therefore you have to overcompensate or chase a man. Taste is subjective.
Sherry Argov
#60. Never throw love away, never neglect it. Never assume you'll find better love somewhere else. Take it wherever you're lucky enough to find it, and always try to return it in kind. Don't take so much for granted.
Patricia Gaffney
#61. Save wealth but never assume it removes all calamity,
When riches forsake, amassed stock dwindles rapidly.
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Munindra Misra
#62. You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.
Steven Soderbergh
#63. Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.
Geoffrey Madan
#64. It is very curious that the United States and Canada both assume that diversity means only race and ethnicity. They never assume it might mean more Nazis, or more Southern Baptists. That's diversity too, you know.
Richard Rodriguez
#65. If you never assume importance, you never lose it.
Laozi
#67. As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never assume that only a few people will appreciate what I do. At all times, the public should be able to understand what I've done, even if they don't understand how I've done it.
Elliott Erwitt
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. The ability to dream, be brave, and love, is never guaranteed, but must always be assumed.
Andrea T. Goeglein
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. '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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.
Brooks Atkinson
#83. 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
#85. 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
#86. I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
Oscar Wilde
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.
Thomas Merton
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#99. 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
#100. 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
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