Never Assuming Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Denis Healey refused to contribute an article to the 'Guardian' about his intentions, and was punished by the electorate - and then all Labour MPs - for his presumption in assuming they already knew everything about him. He became famously the best prime minister we never had. Perhaps.

Simon Hoggart

#3. Well, I haven't heard from you since you went to pick up the treadmill so I am assuming some big, burly, longshoreman has absconded with you and I'll never see you again. And you didn't even get to run on your treadmill!

Debbie Grant

#4. In today's disposable culture, we throw away people like we do razors, always assuming there's someone better out there to hang out with, or to work for- people who will never embarrass us, let us down or offend us.

Kelly Cutrone

#5. I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#7. Never assume someone is smarter than you.

Bethenny Frankel

#8. Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn't do.

Donald Rumsfeld

#9. I'm assuming you're as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin.
No. I'm not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child.
[silence]
This is why I don't make so many jokes. I never know when is good.

Joss Whedon

#10. Never be frightened by those you assume have more talent than you do, because in the end energy will prevail. My formula is: energy plus talent and you are a king; energy and no talent and you are still a prince; talent and no energy and you are a pauper.

Jeffrey Archer

#11. Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

Rod Serling

#12. I have heard of that idea. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal and that they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that a human being is emanated from a deity.

Haile Selassie

#13. You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.

Steven Soderbergh

#14. Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination.

Cornel West

#15. If you never assume importance, you never lose it.

Laozi

#16. I wasn't just fucking Ani. It never could have been that, and I was an idiot for assuming it could. Our lives were intertwined. I cared too much before we'd started sleeping together. There was no way I was going to be able to shut that off once I'd been inside her.

Nicole Jacquelyn

#17. I will never get girls. You're so instantly competitive, always assuming the worst about each other.

Jennifer Hillier

#18. Worry is assuming responsibilities that you cannot handle. They truth is, they are responsibilities that God never intended for you to handle, because they are His.

Charles R. Swindoll

#19. After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

Adam Rickitt

#20. I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#21. I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

Suze Orman

#22. I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing them, and then presuming or assuming or captioning. Words can never be taken back, photographs can never be taken back, nothing can ever be taken back.

Madonna Ciccone

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

Morton T. Kelsey

#24. Either Christ is a liar or war is never necessary, and very properly assuming that Christ told the truth, it follows that the State is without [in the words of Father Macksey] 'judicial authority to determine when war is necessary,' because it is never necessary.

Ben Salmon

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

Felix Unger

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

David McCullough

#27. 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

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

Brian Tracy

#29. I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business.

Chris Whittle

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

Thomas Merton

#31. No, I never expect people to be idiots," George said. "I do expect them to lack some of the necessary information, because experience has demonstrated to me that assuming someone in a key position knows everything you do leads to disaster.

Ilona Andrews

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

Brooks Atkinson

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

Willie Mays