Assuming famous quotes

To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.
-- A. H. Almaas

#Practice #Who We Are #Assuming

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.
-- Aaron Copland

#Assuming #Music Love #One Love

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
-- Adam Clarke

#Humility #Pride #Assuming

The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Evil #Shapes #Assuming

Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing
-- Ahdaf Soueif

#Mean #Use #Assuming

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

#Order #People #Assuming

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
-- Alan Bennett

#Children #Parent #Assuming

Every text assumes a reader.
-- Alberto Manguel

#Assuming #Reader

Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
-- Amos Bronson Alcott

#Mother #Names #Assuming

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

#Children #Parent #Assuming

When you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you.
-- Andrew Holleran

#Believe #People #Assuming

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.
-- Andy Stanley

#People #Vision #Assuming

I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing.
-- Ann Aguirre

#Stupid #People #Assuming

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
-- Ann Beattie

#Limits #Assuming

I assume these structures are made for siting?
-- Anna Banks

#Assuming #Structure #Made

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

#People #Assuming #Logical

I assume I don't need an introduction.
-- Anne Rice

#Needs #Assuming #Introduction

Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt ***** shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#Jobs #Self #Assuming

I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#People #Assuming #Type

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Success #Responsibility #Assuming

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.
-- Aristotle

#Atheism #May #Assuming

Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#People #Assuming

I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
-- Bayard Taylor

#Jerusalem #Emotion #Assuming

Never assume someone is smarter than you.
-- Bethenny Frankel

#Assuming #Never Assume

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.
-- Bill Bradley

#Winning #Two #Assuming

Never assume you know where someone else is coming from.
-- Blake Crouch

#Halloween #Assuming #Never Assume

That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
-- Bob Goff

#Way #Assuming

Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.
-- Brian Tracy

#Assuming #Never Assume

New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.
-- Brooks Atkinson

#New York #Rain #Assuming

If you have problems in your life, don’t assume there is something wrong with you.
-- Bruce C. Hafen

#Assuming #Problem

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.
-- Bryan Cranston

#People #Comedy #Assuming

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

#Alive #Majesty #Assuming

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.
-- Carl Jung

#People #World #Assuming

When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard.
-- Carmen Electra

#People #Way #Assuming

I can only assume that there’s only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that’s not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Want #Able #Assuming

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

#People #Assuming #Wonder

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.
-- Chuck Klosterman

#Lying #People #Assuming

They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Beautiful #Looks #Assuming

Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.
-- Claire Danes

#People #Empathy #Assuming

Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.
-- Cornelia Funke

#Darkness #World #Assuming

The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.
-- D. A. Carson

#Way #Assuming

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
-- Damian Lewis

#Men #People #Assuming

A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.
-- Damian Pettigrew

#Portraits #Topics #Assuming

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.
-- Daniel Kahneman

#Ideas #Assuming #Problem

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#People #Interesting #Assuming

We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.
-- Darren Shan

#Assuming #Assumption #Sometimes

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.
-- Dave Barry

#Guy #Literature #Assuming

We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.
-- David Abram

#Assuming #Language #Mute

An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the best of circumstances, the relationship is clear enough so that the mathematician can submit his or her reasoning to an informal checklist, passing from step to step with the easy confidence the steps are small enough so that he cannot be embarrassed nor she tripped up.
-- David Berlinski

#Steps #Assuming #Enough

Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.
-- David McCullough

#Responsibility #People #Assuming

We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.
-- Dean Radin

#Measurement #Assuming #Results

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
-- Dick Cavett

#Men #People #Assuming

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
-- Dick Cavett

#Thinking #Youth #Assuming

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#Schedules #Assuming #Ready

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.
-- Don Roff

#Creative #Students #Assuming

We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.
-- Donald M. Nelson

#Success #Done #Assuming

Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn't do.
-- Donald Rumsfeld

#Assuming #Never Assume

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.
-- Ed Balls

#Years #Lasts #Assuming

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.
-- Edgar Rice Burroughs

#Lions #Assuming #Caught

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing -- and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga -- it will all equal itself out.
-- Edward Albee

#Writing #Goes On #Assuming

It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.
-- Edward Dahlberg

#Assuming #Coarse #Endeavor

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

#People #Needs #Assuming

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Assuming #Contagious

I assume this is all part of some brutally simplistic plan you've thought up?" "Yes." "Oh, good.
-- Eric S. Nylund

#Assuming #Plans

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
-- Ernest Hemingway

#Writing #Events #Assuming

Our partner's sexuality does not belong to us. It isn't just for and about us, and we should not assume that it rightfully falls within our jurisdiction.
-- Esther Perel

#Fall #Doe #Assuming

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.
-- Eugen Herrigel

#Lying #Mastery #Assuming

Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.
-- Faith Popcorn

#Future #Waiting #Assuming

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting
-- Fernand Leger

#Understanding #Assuming #Painting

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.
-- Frantz Fanon

#Believe #Assuming #Individual

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

#Letting Go #Assuming #Realizing

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.
-- Gail Caldwell

#Sadness #Feeling Sad #Assuming

The adhesion of Coca-Cola is an affirmation of the expansion of the Global Pact and the importance it assumes worldwide, especially on the US market where more and more enterprises have decided to get involved.
-- George Kell

#Expansion #Affirmation #Assuming

Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.
-- George Soros

#Wall #Assuming #Streets

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
-- Gerrit Smith

#Men #Fellow Man #Assuming

Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
-- Gertrude Stein

#Assuming #Position

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
-- Giordano Bruno

#Doubt #Assuming #Tradition

Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.
-- Gus Van Sant

#Casting #Assuming #Concern

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
-- Gustav Mahler

#Assuming #Never Assume #Disguise

Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.
-- Ha-Joon Chang

#People #Assuming #Worst

Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?
-- Hanif Kureishi

#People #Way #Assuming

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.
-- Henry Adams

#Saint #Assuming #Century

Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses media literacy if they can consume but not express themselves
-- Henry Jenkins

#Writing #Media #Assuming

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Two #Stupidity #Assuming

It’s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.
-- Hugh Elliot

#Assuming

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.
-- Hugh Hopper

#Giving #Musician #Assuming

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
-- Indra Nooyi

#Doe #Assuming

When you assume negative intent, youre angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
-- Indra Nooyi

#Emotional #Negative #Assuming

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different.
-- Indra Nooyi

#Doe #Different #Assuming

I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.
-- Italo Calvino

#May #Assuming #Form

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
-- J. J. Abrams

#Thinking #Assuming

I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them.
-- J. Robert Lennon

#Book #Annoyed #Assuming

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
-- J. William Fulbright

#Mean #Ideas #Assuming

Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.
-- Jack McDevitt

#Intelligent #Assuming #Individual

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.
-- Jack Vance

#Assuming #Pertinent #Wit

Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.
-- Jack Welch

#Learning #Arrogant #Assuming

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.
-- Jaime Lerner

#Ideas #People #Assuming

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
-- James A. Baldwin

#Artist #Heaven #Assuming

This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.
-- James Berardinelli

#Brain #Assuming #Audience

When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.
-- James L. Kraft

#Mind #Answers #Assuming