Quotes About Assumption

What was presumed and what was actually known were two entirely different things.

Investors who focus on currencies, bonds, and stock markets generally assume a normal distribution of price changes: values jiggle up and down, but extreme moves are unusual. Of course, extreme moves are possible, as financial crashes show. But between 1985 and 2015, the S&P 500 stock index budged less than 3 percent from its starting point on 7,663 out of 7,817 days; in other words, for fully 98 percent of the time, the market is remarkably stable.

Your first mistake might be assuming that people are rational. Your second mistake could be assuming that people are eager for change. And the marketer's third mistake is assuming that once someone knows things the way you know them, they will choose what you chose.

When in doubt, assume that people will act according to their current irrational urges, ignoring information that runs counter to their beliefs, trading long-term for short-term benefits and most of all, being influenced by the culture they identify with.

Expectations are the engine of our perceptions.

We assume that what makes us comfortable also makes us safe.

Jethri had lately formed the theory that this reluctance to offer information was not what a Terran would call spitefulness, but courtesy. It would be—an insult, if his reading of the tapes was right, to assume that another person was ignorant of any particular something.

When we assume that God's love is based on our behavior we've set ourselves up for a devastating fall.

They call me an apple because they think I'm red on the outside and white on the inside.

So who was she? (Vane) Why do you assume it was a female? (Fang) Didn't know you were fond of men. I'll file that under my special Fang folder. (Vane)

You must be the brother. I hope so, I'm wearing his pants.

I assumed he'd kill me, not my people. (Stryker) The man's name is War. Did that not clue you in about his personality? This would be tantamount to meeting Peone and expecting the goddess of retaliation to forgive you and blithely walk away to let you live a happy life. (Zephyra)

I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead.

That girl--all of them--hated Eleanor before they'd even laid eyes on her. Like they'd been hired to kill her in a past life.

Give the benefit of the doubt; assume that your beloved's intentions are life-enhancing and positive.

Needless to say none of this makes much sense within the modern worldview brought to us by Western science, whose "governing assumption," in philosopher Richard Tarnas's words, is that "any meaning the human mind perceives in the universe does not exist intrinsically in the universe but is projected onto it by the human mind" (Tarnas 2006).

It was safe to assume that the rider would be carrying a weapon of some kind. After all, there was no point in wearing half armor and going weaponless.

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme.

True enough," Peter answered, sighing deeply. "But I'm thinking that no one exactly seems like the type who would kill themselves, until they do, and then, all of a sudden everyone around here nods their heads and says, 'Why of course …' because it seems so damn obvious.

You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

that's a third assumption that's wrong," I say. "We've assumed that utilization and activation are the same. Activating a resource and utilizing a resource are not synonymous.

The most demanding assumption that TPS makes about the production environment is that it is a stable environment. And it demands stability in three different aspects.

But Doc knew that was the key to successful lying. People judged what other people would do by what they themselves would do. You could tell a hell of a lot about a man by what he assumed others got up to. If you're looking for a thief, bet on the man who's always accusing his neighbors.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.