"Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous."

-- Peter Drucker

#Thinking Quotes #Assumption Quotes

“I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.”
“Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.”
“Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.”
“Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.”
“Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day...”

Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.584, Xist Publishing
“The day that I got the phone call to tell me that I booked â€˜Gleeâ€™ I was shooting â€˜CSI Miami.â€™ I was playing this ***** addictâ€¦Iâ€™d been on a million auditions where I sang and looked exactly the same way and didnâ€™t do anything different. And so for this to be the one that popped it was just like what happened? It was the perfect timing and the perfect role for me. It was like everything came together.”
“The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.”

Source : "Senator Fulbright: Portrait of a Public Philosopher". Book by Tristram Coffin, 1966.
“Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.”

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