Quotes About Assumption

I resent ever being stereotyped.

I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.

I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.

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

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.

I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 hit.

'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.

Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence.

No one needs to treat you like a star kid in the industry, but you do get pointed at... people assume you get everything on a silver platter, but that's not true.

I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

Dr. King's policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

Most people are distrustful of others who present themselves as one thing, then turn out to be another. I find it more useful to let them make their presumptions, then follow their preconceived notions.

It's a dangerous assumption and I know I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but it's always easier to pin suspicion on someone you dislike.

I noticed you right away." She gave me an approving look. "I like quiet, polite men. And men who wear Hugo Boss. I was hoping you weren't gay. Or that you were only half-gay. Like Paul." "Uh…sorry," I said. "It's pretty much full-time now. The pay's not great, but the perks…

If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.

You're sure he's not a cross-dresser?" Diana asked.

Es el perpetuo, empequeñecedor coro de quienes han decidido lo que soy antes de darme la oportunidad de ser otra cosa.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

To assume is to presume.

Ye Must Take Me For A Featherbrain - Mared Lockhart

People saw what they expected to see. It was one of the basic truisms of life.

It was easy to assume that you didn't care about the opinions of others when those opinions were consistently favorable.