Quotes About Assuming The Worst

#1. You only get to be my age by assuming the worst." Mr. Wednesday, American Gods

Neil Gaiman

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

Richard Branson

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

Jennifer Hillier

#4. Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we're left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there trembling not moving, assuming the worst that can happen or we step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant.

Sandra Oh

#5. This approach has enabled Japanese firms to achieve such production efficiency and quality that now many non-Japanese companies are imitating them. By not assuming the worst about their workers, the Japanese companies have got the best out of them.

Ha-Joon Chang

#6. 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

#7. I used to feel afraid of the future, always assuming the worst. But now I've realized that my worst fears have already happened, and I've survived them! I've walked into the fire and made it out alive. Only the loss of a close loved one could have "woken me up" to reality in the same way.

Elizabeth Berrien

#8. Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone's motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone's Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings.

Gary Ackerman

#9. Stop assuming the worst. Give others the benefit of the doubt.

Walter E. Jacobson

#10. Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#11. It is one of those stories that you just want to keep going and going - even after the last page has been reached.
Kristie Leigh Maguire

Vicki M. Taylor

#12. What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!

J.B. Priestley

#13. I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

Sarah Miller

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

Ha-Joon Chang

#15. Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

Erykah Badu

#16. Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

Idries Shah

#17. You found me in a constellation.

Francesca Zappia

#18. I imagined it was far better to be optimistic, to proceed assuming wherever you could that you had cared enough, that you'd made a difference, that you would again. Dwelling on the worst was no way to live.

Gwenda Bond

#19. We have every reason to assume the worst.

George W. Bush

#20. The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

Alan Dershowitz

#21. Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

Mark Twain

#22. We all assume the worst the best we can.

Iron & Wine

#23. I have a lot of respect for the bikers, which I've always had.

Emilio Rivera

#24. I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware ... Beware ...

Anne Sexton

#25. It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

Ludwig Von Mises

#26. The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#27. Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution.

Jim Rohn

#28. But is has happened, you know. Bear that in mind. Nothing you can do will change it. Time and again, I've found that a good thing to remember.

Edith Wharton

#29. this is what temporial stuttering FEELS LIKE like a stut stut STUTTERY RUSHING FORWARD in TIME WITHOUT a MOMENT OR an INSTANT TO DISTINGUISH ONE INSTANCE from THE next GROWING EVER LOUDER AND LOUDER WITHOUT PUNCTUATION until SUDDENLY WITHOUT WARNING IT
stops.

Ruth Ozeki

#30. I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.

Cameron Diaz