T'assume Quotes

#1. I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.

Patrick Duffy

#2. Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

Nathan Wolfe

#3. Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#4. The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.

Cate Blanchett

#5. Pull - don't push. Investigate - don't present. Probe - don't pitch. Ask - don't assume. How? Talk less - listen more. Make fewer statements - ask more questions.

Darren Hardy

#6. I don't assume that I am going to be cast as a Glaswegian landlord.

Julian Ovenden

#7. Don't Trust Blindly
If in shark infested waters, don't assume the fin coming toward you is a dolphin.

Mary Russel

#8. Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.

Marian Wright Edelman

#9. Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#10. It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.

Napoleon Hill

#11. Don't assume meekness is weakness and those who are loud are strong.

Brad Lomenick

#12. Respond; don't react.
Listen; don't talk.
Think; don't assume.

Raji Lukkoor

#13. Strong moral arguments exist for why we should often try to ignore stereotypes or override them. But we shouldn't assume they represent some irrational quirk of the unconscious mind. In fact, they're largely the consequence of the mind's attempt to make a rational decision.

Paul Bloom

#14. Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.

Cate Blanchett

#15. I can't assume that people see me the way I see myself. I have to show them. But I can't do it in a way where it's too much, where it's rude. I feel like when you're a king, you lead. And I just see myself as a king, or as something more than just a regular human being.

Shameik Moore

#16. I can't assume responsibility for a man's infidelity, no more than I can take credit for his choice to remain faithful.

Lorraine Maloney Armstrong

#17. Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.

Richard Bach

#18. You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.

Howard Rheingold

#19. Looks aren't everything," Kate said. "After all," she quoted, "'the devil hath power t'assume a pleasing shape.

Suzanne Harper

#20. Ask if you need to, but don't assume. Sometimes our bad feelings are only assumptions and speculations doing dark dances in our heads.

Bonnie Lyn Smith

#21. Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So don't ever put off telling someone how you feel about them, don't assume that they know, because they might not and it might be too late.

Alexandra Potter

#22. The sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.

David Foster Wallace

#23. Everyone thinks Goldman is so fucking smart," he railed. "Just because Goldman says this is the right valuation, you shouldn't assume it's correct just because Goldman said it. My brother works at Goldman, and he's an idiot!

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#24. I don't assume anything about people, and I sure don't trust 'em. Just when you think you know a guy, he turns out to be a liar, a fraud, or a backstabber.

Jason Brannon

#25. Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men's trousers, you needn't assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

Loretta Chase

#26. Go among the people. Don't assume you know what church looks like.

Alan Hirsch

#27. I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.

Melissa Rosenberg

#28. That's the difference between a godly person and an atheist. Our stories are shorter and don't assume the protagonist is an idiot.

P.Z. Myers

#29. Don't assume that you are the exception.

Mike Nappa

#30. Don't assume your partner knows about everything you expect in a relationship. Let them know. A relationship should be based on communication, not on assumptions.

Turcois Ominek

#31. Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

Maurice Sendak

#32. Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

Amy Chua

#33. I'm trusting. I don't assume people lie to me.

Ben Sprecher

#34. Don't assume, when a lady wants to take up a task or a cause, that is just a hobby.

Suzanne Enoch

#35. If a rattlesnake thinks he can swallow a mouse, he probably can. Don't assume you think like a snake unless you are one.

Alan Alda

#36. All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.

Tony Abbott

#37. If you have problems in your life, don't assume there is something wrong with you.

Bruce C. Hafen

#38. And you shouldn't assume that everything is always about you.

Ned Vizzini

#39. Before negotiating a raise, start collecting a file of evidence showing how you've impacted the bottom line ... Don't believe there's no money in the budget. Don't assume your boss knows how great you've been doing. Don't threaten to leave
you may be given the opportunity.

Pat Heim

#40. 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

#41. It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do
or don't do.

Simone De Beauvoir

#42. I guess we both lose the bet. What bet Thomas asked entering the room.
Boxers or briefs Jeanne Louise answered. I was betting boxers and Elspeth thought briefs. Instead he went commando!!
So be warned ladies, don't assume they are wearing any undies!!

Lynsay Sands

#43. Don't assume that God will bless you with what you desire just because He knows your thoughts.You must ask for these blessings and act.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#44. As a makeup artist, I learned quickly that the color of your lips affects the way a lipstick looks. If you see your friend wearing a great color, don't assume it will be right for you.

Bobbi Brown

#45. A man shouldn't assume his wife was happy just because she didn't complain all the time. She had complained this morning. He'd spanked her for it. That didn't sit right somehow.

Starla Kaye

#46. And just like that I had my lesson. I shouldn't assume that every woman a man bashes gave him a him a good reason to do it.- Anita Blake

Laurell K. Hamilton

#47. When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

Laurie Helgoe

#48. Most people would fiercely resist the idea that they need any instruction in how to listen to music. Because we can hear, we think we can listen. But just because we can see, we don't assume we can read. Reading

Julian Johnson

#49. Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together.

John Piper

#50. People don't assume John Wayne shoots people and rides a horse on weekends.

Sylvia Kristel

#51. Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.

Jack McDevitt

#52. Don't assume anything. You don't have to live your life in fear, but know what's around you. Be smart. Don't go blindly into dark alleys or parking lots.

Richelle Mead

#53. Don't assume I'm dumb because I wear a suit and tie.

David Mamet

#54. You shouldn't assume everything you don't understand is a message,

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#55. Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.

Mitch Albom

#56. People don't expect a small Japanese girl to be able to break a man's arm.
"They didn't assume you were a ninja?

Demitria Lunetta

#57. You can't assume the best about people. If I get a girl home and she takes her pants off, and it looks like she's got herpes, I can't afford to assume she got stung by a pack of bees.

Dov Davidoff

#58. You can't assume a goddamned thing in this Navy.

Herman Wouk

#59. Don't assume that money, shelter and creature comforts are enough to demonstrate your love. Nothing can replace your presence, your hug, your smile, your touch - you!

Denis Waitley

#60. Trust me to know my own feelings. Don't assume you know what's best for me.

Jen Frederick

#61. Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

Ken Robinson

#62. Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.

Robert Genn

#63. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation.

Phil Klay

#64. Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

Raymond E. Feist

#65. Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.

Warsan Shire

#66. Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.

Marc Bolan

#67. don't assume you have tomorrow to say something that would be better said today. Because tomorrow might not get here.

Paige Tyler

#68. Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.

William Stafford

#69. You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

Katie Couric

#70. Buy your fair-trade coffee beans by all means, but don't assume fair-trade principles govern the conditions of the men who fetch it to you. You would be mistaken.

Rose George

#71. Don't assume I have everything figured out ... I get as confused about life as everybody, and sometimes I think I'm just hurtling through the world without a plan at all.

Leslie Mann

#72. If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

Hilary Mantel

#73. Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect.

Farshad Asl

#74. You can't assume everything's okay inside the house just because the paint isn't peeling and the yard is neatly mowed.

Emily Bleeker

#75. Clay said, "If they have flashlights like us, we can almost assume-"
"We can't assume anything," [Alice] said restlessly, querulously. "My father says assume makes an ass out of you and me. Get it, u and-"
"I get it," Clay said.

Stephen King

#76. Don't assume that because everyone believes a thing, that it is right or wrong. Reason things out for yourself. Work to get answers on your own. Understand why you believe things.

Avi

#77. If you make a hiring mistake, make the change quickly. Don't ignore problems. Don't assume it will get better.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#78. But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.

Angela Davis

#79. Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

Robert K. Greenleaf

#80. Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that 'the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted.

Heloise

#81. Just because you are idle, don't assume God is.

Max Lucado

#82. Don't assume I'm bluffing Nan. Because this time you've fucked with something I care about. This affects me, so listen and shut the hell up

Abbi Glines

#83. Behind me, Ingrid made a sort of muffled snorting sound. I can only assume she was choking on a breath mint. I shot her a look, hoping she hadn't heard anything, and saw she was wearing a poker face, which could only mean she'd heard everything.

Daniel O'Malley

#84. I think when people see photos of you out and about in your personal life, they assume that you've asked for it or that you want that attention, but I don't think anyone in their right mind asks for that kind of thing.

Liam Hemsworth

#85. One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.

Arthur C. Clarke

#86. Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Thomas Sowell

#87. When people look at me, they automatically assume I'm dark and weird. Why can't they see the truth? I'm just a girl, trying to find my place in the world.

Gena Showalter

#88. The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. An actor has to assume other people's identities. A rock star doesn't need to do that. But change is important.

Nick Cave

#89. I don't believe you can reduce the world to a mathematical formula. I start with the world, assume it's complicated, and ask where can I get help from a whole range of disciplines.

Noreena Hertz

#90. Always assume the best of people. But if a guy proves he's no good, then don't hesitate to give him what he deserves.

Adam Makos

#91. Sometimes when they all talk I feel like shouting, 'so your life went wrong - why assume mine will? Maybe it'll work for me!' But this would only invite a pitying smile, and a 'she'll learn' comment. You can't win with them. You can't even compete.

Kate Cann

#92. I try to write three jokes every morning, although I don't know what they are. I write them as fast as I can, then I put them away for a month. So I couldn't even tell you what they are, or if they're good. I just assume they weren't.

Anthony Jeselnik

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

Andrea T. Goeglein

#94. People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.

Michel Houellebecq

#95. Contrary to what you might assume, I didn't start with any advantages and neither did most of the successful people I know. I am the grandson of immigrants who came to this country seeking basic economic and personal liberty.

Kenneth Langone

#96. Ron Paul's crazy talk about the Federal Reserve makes more sense these days. Right now, every - all this debt issued by the United States people assume the Chinese are buying, no they don't want any more American debt. Ron Paul has a point there.

Mark Steyn

#97. Assume you will make enemies. Work to make allies. Don't expect to make friends. Friends are a gift that happens over time.

Thea Harrison

#98. No,' the professor replied. 'Her Majesty s alive and well - at least I assume so if she hasn't met a certain van driver from Yeovil.' ~Professor Hamilton

Bryan Davis

#99. 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

#100. We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

Gabrielle Union