Quotes About Assumption

The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise.

If you're winning bike races ahead of guys who're older than you then they're going to get upset. When some young guy appears from nowhere, some people who are slower assume they ride dangerously.

Many travelers get into trouble in places like Dubai by assuming that it is sufficiently Western for them to drink as they do back home. But elsewhere in the Muslim world, it is quite controlled, and the non-Muslim will be steered down a fairly narrow path.

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

I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest.

In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I thought you were just born into acting - that it's a family tree, kind of like NASCAR. No one can just say, 'Hey, I'm going to be a NASCAR driver.'

I had a stereotype in my mind of what a 'Star Trek' fans is, but I couldn't have been more wrong.

Fundamental protections, the assumption of innocence, trial by jury, and the right to appear before a court have all been sacrificed on the altar of the E.U. superstate.

When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.

What you expect, it will happen.

We see only half, yet speak like we know the other .

If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them.

We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

As Kiefer et al. note, again in an insult to clear languaging, "The capture of visuo-spatial attention by unconscious stimuli likewise was shown to depend on the match between the stimulus feathers and a fitting top-down search template."17 In other words, some things have to be believed to be seen or, another way of putting it: if you assume something is not there, then, to you, it won't be.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

Everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

In order to be creatively satisfied and financially secure, you need to be a self-starter. I'm always assuming nothing's going to work out and I have to roll up my sleeves.

I don't want this to sound racist, but most Orientals are nonconfrontational. They'll let things slide. I'm not like that.

I don't see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it's slightly less bad than the opposition.