You Assume Quotes

#1. Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.

Howard Zinn

#2. Shakespeare said, Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

Dale Carnegie

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.

Neville Goddard

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

Willie Mays

#7. I believe in karma ... that means i can do bad things to you all day long and assume you deserve it.

Scott Adams

#8. One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

Imran Khan

#9. You can safely assume you've remade God in your own image when it turns out God hates the same people you do. Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

Janis Bragan Balda

#10. Why is it that they can only come up with one model of spaceship? You would assume such intelligent creatures could, once in a while, put out something in a nice powder blue and shaped like a footstool or maybe like France.

Cuthbert Soup

#11. When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard.

Carmen Electra

#12. We had the whole 'when you assume you make an ass out of you and me' speech in school.

Jonathan Maberry

#13. You've got to build a relationship. You can't just deal with people when it's business. If it is, then you always have to assume that they have an angle when they come at you.

Markwayne Mullin

#14. Never assume that others have understood exactly what you mean.

Steven Redhead

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. I beg of you ... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

Gustav Mahler

#18. 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

#19. Since my phone ain't ringin' I assume it still ain't you.

Randy Travis

#20. Do not antagonize your son! He is of an age to choose for himself. Because his choice is not your choice, do not assume that you must be right. If it is a misfortune - then accept misfortune. Be at hand to aid him when he needs aid. But do not turn him against you.

Agatha Christie

#21. This has been the left's technique. The technique is to portray a political enemy of the left as this outrageous caveman or whatever decrepit form of humanity that you can describe, and then assume that everybody else agrees, and then cover the story as though everybody agrees.

Rush Limbaugh

#22. Leaders often assume to their own peril that spirituality/faith is a good but separate part of their lives. Faith is less like your arm and more like your heart. It is not supplementary to who we are but integral. As such, you should work to keep it in good health.

Brad Lomenick

#23. The word "Guru", as it is used in the contemporary American scene, is someone who takes all your money and tells you what to do with your life. You assume no responsibility. A lot of people want that free ride.

Frederick Lenz

#24. When you have a cat you assume certain responsibilities that, in a spiritual sense, transcend those of a marital or a business relationship.

Kinky Friedman

#25. Before you assume. Learn.
Before you judge. Understand.
Before you hurt. Feel.
Before you say. Think.

Unknown

#26. It is ridiculous to assume you can tax the people that are working and give the money (to people) who are not working and somehow this creates economy activity. You are destroying as much by taking from those who are working and creating.

Yaron Brook

#27. People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are.

Michael Symon

#28. If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

Daniel Kahneman

#29. People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers at the top of (those) industries, they don't vary very much. I think in finance, women hold 19 percent of the top jobs, and women are 21 percent of the leaders in nonprofits.

Sheryl Sandberg

#30. 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

#31. I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness.

J.K. Rowling

#32. People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

Isabel Lucas

#33. People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy.

John Barrow

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

David Foster Wallace

#35. But, she remembers, you always have to assume that the present is real. It's the only way to remain sane. It's the only way to remain ethical.

Sam Hughes

#36. 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

#37. As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.

Emma McLaughlin

#38. Dealing with one who feels smarter than you,
let him assume that you ain't smarter than him.

Toba Beta

#39. Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

Napoleon Hill

#40. The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.

John C. Lilly

#41. Multi-tasking is great in the kitchen when you are trying to time the chicken to be ready at the same time as the potatoes. But do not assume it is a great way to manage a workday.

Joanne Tombrakos

#42. As you make a prototype, assume you are right and everyone else is wrong. When you share your prototype, assume you are wrong and everyone else is right.

Diego Rodriguez Telechea

#43. Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.

Gus Van Sant

#44. I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

Maynard James Keenan

#45. I assume that maybe you are not serious, but sincere.

Alan W. Watts

#46. I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

Karin Slaughter

#47. You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day.

Wole Soyinka

#48. Either these - unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Dwight L. Moody

#49. Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'.

Michael Palin

#50. Act as if you know what you are talking about and people will assume that you do. Pretend you have no fear and you will appear confident to others.

Michael Wallace

#51. 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

#52. Sometimes magazines will take artist's creative choices too literally; they assume that I actually live the way I do in music videos. For example: the whole "Dirty" thing. Do you think I wear chaps to the grocery store?

Christina Aguilera

#53. It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

Josh Billings

#54. The Crown. Place it upon your head and you assume a different post-tranquil yet radiating assurance. Never show doubt, never lose your dignity beneath the crown, or it will not fit. It will seem to be destined for one more worthy. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emporers crown themselves.

Robert Greene

#55. I think acting is a job where you're always unemployed. You're always looking for the next job, so I assume that it's like other jobs that are with that same kind of setup.

Emmy Rossum

#56. Don't naively assume that negative influences have no impact on you, they do.

Mensah Oteh

#57. That's the poisoned chalice: when you're shy, people assume you're arrogant.

Catherine Tate

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

Ned Vizzini

#59. Do not assume that people are seeing you. The more you can clarify, optimize, and engage your fans and strangers with branded marketing and merchandise, the better chance you have of being seen and then heard.

Loren Weisman

#60. But it is a myth to assume that the larger amount of early stimulation you provide, the more beneficial it will be. The truth is that babies can be overstimulated
which is what many parents, intent on beginning to groom their progeny for college in the cradle, end up doing.

Julius Segal

#61. Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

Alfred De Vigny

#62. If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Benoit Mandelbrot

#63. It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you're writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There's no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they're capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam.

G. Willow Wilson

#64. You can't always tell if someone's gay over Twitter, but when he's talking to you about 'Real Housewives,' it's probably OK to assume.

Casey Wilson

#65. Please assume that I am talking continuously in all the scenes that follow until I tell you that I'm not.

Karen Joy Fowler

#66. 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

#67. When you look at the external reality, you may assume you know everything, but when you close your eyes and try to look into the darkness of your internal reality, all the knowledge of the external life fails to create a way out of the darkness.

Roshan Sharma

#68. Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical - as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can't exist.

T.H. White

#69. And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

Plato

#70. But you don't have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt."
"You don't have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn't always out to get you.

Sarah Dessen

#71. Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.

Lynn Cullen

#72. One of the rudest questions you might hear from an American is "What do you do for a living?" The only proper response is "Excuse me?" followed by a self-satisfied smirk and a stony silence. Then they assume that you are independently wealthy and grovel shamefully.

Dmitry Orlov

#73. I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.

George Shearing

#74. It's safe to assume that no matter where you stand, someone would be happy to be in your shoes, just as you'd be happy to be in someone else's.

Scott Berkun

#75. Yet the notion that you're paid what you're "worth" is by now so deeply ingrained in the public consciousness that many who earn very little assume it's their own fault.

Robert B. Reich

#76. 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

#77. Why does finding out someone has pain in their life make you appreciate them more as a human being? Shouldn't we all assume everyone we meet has their own pain?

Dalya Moon

#78. Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.

Ralph Marston

#79. If you're going to run around, Ms. Pelosi, and you're going to say Republicans like the war, then can we also assume that Democrats like killing babies? Put that in whatever it is you smoke, Ms. Pelosi, and have fun with it.

Rush Limbaugh

#80. Whatever career you're in, assume it's going to be a massive failure. That way, you're not making decisions based on success, money and career. You're only making it based on doing what you love.

Brian Chesky

#81. Assume that every problem in your life is a lesson to make you stronger. Then you never feel like a victim.

Andrew Matthews

#82. Sex is what you make it, and we have always made do. To assume sex must take place within touching distance seems, to me, limited thinking.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#83. You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

Monica Ali

#84. Also, Nathan, if you're listening, and I assume you are, I'm the best and only friend you've got. Give her permission to share what she has, or I swear to God I'll have you turning tricks out of a prefab shed on the side of the highway. I'm trying to save humanity here.

James S.A. Corey

#85. Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.

John Sununu

#86. I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something is all smoke and mirrors, but there's that, like, feeling at the back of your mind: What if it's not?

Erin Morgenstern

#87. You let me believe all this time that I bound myself to you in exchange for getting published and being successful." Kathleen's mouth worked around the bitterness of the words. "You assumed that. And you know what they say, when you assume you make an ass out of ...

Rachel Caine

#88. If you or I want to be healthy (whether it's our digestion, our reproduction, our skin, or anything) we have to assume greater responsibility for our wellness. One of the best ways to do that is to be familiar with and to use on a regular basis, plant medicines.

Chris Kilham

#89. You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.

Derek Jeter

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

Herman Wouk

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

Jen Frederick

#92. Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes humans objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created to be sick and commanded to be well. - CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Lawrence M. Krauss

#93. It's not always wise to assume that just because the surface of the world appears undisturbed, life is where you left it.

Jan Ellison

#94. 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

#95. One of the joys of being an actor is that you're always learning new things. And I've been doing this since I was 19, so there's been a lot of new things I have learned for each part. I always assume that I can do it.

Richard Gere

#96. I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood, but not me.

Chris Massoglia

#97. How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same for everyone, that simple.

Sarah Dessen

#98. Assume whatever you do, both offline and online, will be seen by your mother, dad, boss, coach, boyfriend, teacher ... the world.

Erik Qualman

#99. I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

Giordano Bruno

#100. I know you know, and you know that I know that you know. It spirals on from there, so let's just assume the dot dot dot.

Orson Scott Card