People Assuming Quotes

#1. I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.

Andrew Solomon

#2. I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

Jonathan Tropper

#3. This whole 'X Factor' thing with people assuming I'm going to be a one-hit wonder - that won't happen with me.

Cher Lloyd

#4. I've read in a couple stories that I was raised Episcopalian, but that's not true. I think that's just people assuming things. In some ways, I wish I was raised Episcopalian. I was kind of raised hodgepodge.

Sufjan Stevens

#5. I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things ... But I'll take that over people assuming that I'm smart just because I'm short and rude.

Amy Adams

#6. Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replaced normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

Albert Camus

#7. There's still time to find him. And people assuming Marc's dead doesn't make him dead. How often
does Marc hold to the status quo?

Rachel Vincent

#8. People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#9. True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.

Julian Baggini

#10. What I don't like are arrogant people. We're all equal. I don't like it when a person assumes to be better.

Selena

#11. Of course, the most troubling question is why do these people assume we're gay?

Dean Winchester

#12. I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.

Nikki Giovanni

#13. 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

#14. - just your basic girl next door, assuming your girl next door comes spring-loaded with seventeen ways to kill a man. Which implies a pretty interesting neighborhood that most people probably don't want to visit.

Seanan McGuire

#15. You could fly under the radar a little bit. You could be a weird kid without defaulting to gay, without everyone assuming you must be gay - that was literally the last place many people went.

Dan Savage

#16. 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

#17. I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go around talking about it.

Dave Barry

#18. Nowadays, most educated people would just as soon stay home and watch 'Breaking Bad' as shell out a hundred bucks to see a Broadway play - assuming that there are any plays on Broadway worth seeing, which long ago ceased to be a safe bet.

Terry Teachout

#19. People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself

Dalai Lama

#20. Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don't understand this

Lee Kuan Yew

#21. The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.

Pat Summitt

#22. Since sane people rarely surround themselves with furnishings which they personally find repellent, it is logical to assume that it will generate a bit of goodwill to enthuse about those they have ...

Anne Morice

#23. 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

#24. Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.

Rory Sutherland

#25. People always assume that things are just handed to me, but I've had to prove myself, every inch of the way.

Madeline Zima

#26. I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

Harvey Pekar

#27. I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

Craig Zobel

#28. You can't make a movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you're going to.

Ryan Gosling

#29. I'm not the most loved person on the planet. People assume they understand who I am by what I do.

Mark T Bertolini

#30. To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#31. The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.

Ashly Lorenzana

#32. I am ready to serve the people of Afghanistan, particularly in order to restore peace. I will be ready to assume any duty at the service of my people.

Ahmad

#33. Occasionally I would like the German people to give us the benefit of the doubt, given our history, as opposed to assuming the worst
assuming that we have been consistently your strong partners and that we share a common set of values.

Barack Obama

#34. While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

Dan Ariely

#35. If we speak poorly about that which we do well ... people will assume we perform poorly!

Dale Carnegie

#36. Some people always assume that if you mention a problem, you caused it.

Sonia Johnson

#37. We seek your blessings and we seek your support. On one side there is the Shahzada and on the other side there is a tea seller. There is Namdaar and there is a Kamdaar. But we assure that after assuming responsibility we will not rest for a minute. All the time will be for the people.

Narendra Modi

#38. Assuming that all things are equal,
Who'd want to be men of the people,
When there's people like you?

Arctic Monkeys

#39. Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.

Barbara Park

#40. Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food stain on their shirt or food in their teeth, as if to say, 'Your fashion sense is so offensive I'm assuming it's some sort of accident you'll want to fix.

Stephan Pastis

#41. It's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a thing quite often - both of them assuming different things and neither of them discovering the discrepancy.

Agatha Christie

#42. Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.

Ha-Joon Chang

#43. It's easy to criticizing or assuming people's talent what really they're,then you're still outside, step in, take a chance and explore them.

Saravanan

#44. We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.

James D. Watson

#45. Assuming that all 'unschooled' people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money, or, that a vagina or a penis is the only source of an orgasm.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#46. People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

Sara Levine

#47. 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

#48. Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.

Criss Jami

#49. People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

John Steinbeck

#50. No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical

Thomas Huxley

#51. I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.

Juliana Hatfield

#52. The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

Maggie Stiefvater

#53. Rather than assuming weakness or defectiveness, we should acknowledge that getting through depression requires considerable strength. Rather than assuming permanent debility, we should recognize that some depressions are followed by thriving.

Jonathan Rottenberg

#54. I would not have used the phrase "I'm selling you" because even though that's exactly what you're doing, when you tell people you're doing it - or worse yet, when you tell people "I'm not here to sell you anything," they automatically assume that that's exactly what you are here to do.

Frank Luntz

#55. Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.

Anne Carson

#56. The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right with God, regardless of whether they personally turn from sin and trust in Jesus.

Mark Driscoll

#57. We have seen that this great labor question cannot be solved save by assuming as a principle that private ownership must be held sacred and inviolable. The law, therefore, should favor ownership, and its policy should be to induce as many as possible of the people to become owners.

Pope Leo XIII

#58. Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

Evan Williams

#59. In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.

Betsy Brandt

#60. Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Richard Branson

#62. It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passively entertained, which requires less effort than assuming responsibility for self-improvement.

Thomas Szasz

#63. [The greatest barriers to forming alliances] are not figuring out what would make others want to join with you. Assuming that what excites you excites others. Spend more time assuming people have good reasons for what they do or say and then figure out those good reasons.

John Daly

#64. I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.

Andrew Solomon

#65. Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises.

Donna Lynn Hope

#66. Your first mistake might be assuming that people are rational.
Your second mistake could be assuming that people are eager for change.
And the marketer's third mistake is assuming that once someone knows things the way you know them, they will choose what you chose.

Seth Godin

#67. My mistake was assuming that when I got to college, people would not be such assholes.

Jennifer Echols

#68. People who just had sex had an annoying habit of assuming everyone around them had just had sex. Which was also, coincidentally, what people who were not having sex assumed.

Sloane Crosley

#69. Challenge rises in her eyes. "You're assuming I actually liked you to begin with. You know what they say about people who assume, ass.

Emma Chase

#70. 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

#71. People have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You

Peter Watts

#72. It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical.

Gretchen Rubin

#73. I'm assuming Mona did something I need to know about. Tell me." Be a tattletale who whined to people's Primes? "No." "No?" Knox echoed with disbelief. Evidently, he wasn't denied things often. Well, Harper did like to introduce people to new experiences. It was more of a calling, really.

Suzanne Wright

#74. Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

Orson Scott Card

#75. So most skeptics who criticize us are really just misinformed and kind of ignorant. They're just assuming something about us. We're quite critical ourselves, but we're here to help people.

Ryan Buell

#76. It wasn't that I was tired of life, really - just my own. Other people's lives seemed perfectly worthwhile, and only the logistical difficultly of assuming them and the likelihood of being caught kept me from concocting some sort of swap.

James Lileks

#77. 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

#78. What was it with small-town people automatically assuming that because two people of the opposite sex were speaking, they must be having sex?

Jamie McGuire

#79. Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#80. Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#81. The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.

Elizabeth Lesser

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

David McCullough

#83. Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it
you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass.

Chuck Klosterman

#84. You don't ever know what anyone's really like,' I said
'Cause you do.'
'How?'
'They tell you; you tell them.'
'That's assuming you're honest. What if you lie?'
'Why would you want to lie?

Tim Relf

#85. And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

Benjamin Tucker