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Quotes About Assumption

Campaigning and governing are two very different activities, and there is no reason to assume that how Trump conducted the former will dictate how he approaches the latter.
~ Richard N. Haass
None of us should assume stuff.
~ Adam Vinatieri
A lot of times, comedic actors are discriminated against. People just assume they can't do something other than what they do, rather than thinking, 'Oh, wait - doing what they do normally is really hard.'
~ Brett Gelman
I guess I look so straight and normal, nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall.
~ Chevy Chase
I've noticed though that people will always assume you are the character you last played. I guess it's a compliment to playing your character convincingly.
~ Lisa Haydon
If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
~ Waris Ahluwalia
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel.
~ Ben Mendelsohn
There are areas of the Earth that I would absolutely think no one lived in based on daytime observations. But then at night, lights pop up in those areas.
~ Sunita Williams
What frustrates me a lot about some aspects of filmmaking is people thinking everyone is really dumb and that we have to make everything really obvious.
~ Whit Stillman
I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.
~ John Lone
I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.
~ Jonathan Tropper
Roth was irritated. Just because he was a Jew too, they always assumed he felt the same way about things. It made him feel a little frustrated. No doubt some of his bad luck had come because he was one, but that was unfair; it wasn't as if he took an interest, it was just an accident of birth.
~ Norman Mailer
God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualising His presence. Then practise believing that affirmation. Go about your business on the assumption that what you have affirmed and visualised is true. Affirm it, visualise it, believe it, and it will actualise itself. The release of power which this procedure stimulates will astonish you.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualizing His presence. Then practice believing that affirmation. Go about your business on the assumption that what you have affirmed and visualized is true. Affirm it, visualize it, believe it, and it will actualize itself. The release of power which this procedure stimulates will astonish you.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not.
~ Norton Juster
A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself
~ Orson Scott Card
I know you know, and you know that I know that you know. It spirals on from there, so let's just assume the dot dot dot.
~ Orson Scott Card
He thinks I'm like him, Mazer realized. That's what we do as humans; it's how we read minds. We assume that other people think like we do. So if we're nasty and suspicious and conniving we assume that everyone is as nasty and suspicious and conniving as we are.
~ Orson Scott Card
As for Peter – we didn't even suggest a meeting, and so he didn't have a chance to tell us to go to hell.
~ Orson Scott Card
I assumed that Dawson was his valet. Then again, it might be his pet raccoon.
~ Connie Willis
The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure
~ Cormac McCarthy
I can only assume that fresh demons have materialized out of your troubled karma.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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