Quotes About Assumption

And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave mistake to assume your dream is in any way shared, that it's a common dream. Not only is it not shared, not common, there is no reason to assume that other people don't find you and your dream utterly revolting.

Where's Mom?" she asked. Claire gestured to the French doors. "She walked out to your patio to take a phone call. I was assuming it was Harry, since they were all lovey-dovey." "Eww.

Peter Blood judged her- as we are all prone to do- upon insufficient knowledge.

Never take someone for granted based on your perception and act on it, for that would yield in ultimate disaster!"

A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me.

If we were building a consciousness detector, Searle would want it to ascertain that it was squirting biological neurotransmitters. American philosopher Daniel Dennett (born in 1942) would be more flexible on substrate, but might want to determine whether or not the system contained a model of itself and of its own performance. That view comes closer to my own, but at its core is still a philosophical assumption.

Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it—life begins in slime and ends in intelligence—whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins puts the matter: "We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else takes it for granted that they are descended from gods." —HUSTON SMITH16

The other cause of many problems is 'assumption'. Never assume anything. If you do hear the word, alarm bells should start ringing. Always check, re-check and check again.

By treating all residents as American rebels, the occupying army made a false assumption come true. "Instead of destroying the Revolution," states historian Joseph Tiedemann, "the British army became one of its agents.

Although Lord Dunmore, the governor of Virginia, was the only British official to promise emancipation, many enslaved people throughout the South assumed that if they offered their services to the British they would be set free. To some extent this was true.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

The errors of muddling correlation with causation, necessary condition with sufficient causation, and sufficient causation with identity lie at the heart of the neuromaniac's basic assumption that consciousness and nerve impulses are one and the same, and that (to echo a commonly used formulation) "the mind is a creation of the brain".

The assumption that 'if science can't see it, then it is isn't real' has nothing to do with science and everything to do with 'scientism'—belief in the 'omnicompetence of science';[30] more precisely, in the omnicompetence of a sub-set of sciences—the natural, rather than the social, sciences

The assumption that people sometimes make is that I have made a cold, calculated decision to put my career ahead of having family, and that's not true.

That is sort of the backbone for 'Star-ving.' People just assumed that I am completely loaded. I do all right. I have to be careful.

I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.

Rarely when you label a group as something does that whole group really fall into that category.

People always think I'm Jewish. Actually, I'm a lapsed Catholic.

I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader.

When you first hear the name 'Max Irons,' you'd be forgiven for assuming that Marvel comics has come up with a new superhero.

In Australia, it's people from Asian countries who most often recognise me. There are often people just looking at me at the supermarket, like they're shocked to think I would go to the supermarket.

I was surprised by how little they knew about me at Barcelona. You can accept that from a supermarket cashier - but not from someone who works in football.

One of the things that impacted me the most was in the 12th grade. I just assumed I would get the lead in the musical. Well, I didn't get it; I got the second lead, and I was devastated... my mom said something like, 'Often the supporting character is better.'

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.