Quotes About Assumption

In short, it was precisely the kind of friendship and Englishman makes on holiday, that he can make only on holiday. A friendship that crosses class and color, a friendship that takes as its basis physical proximity and survives because the Englishman assumes the physical proximity will not continue.

We worried for her. We tend to assume the worst, here in Willesden. We watched her watching the shuttlecock. Pock, smash. Pock, smash. As if one player could imagine only a violent conclusion and the other only a hopeful return.

In short, it was precisely the kind of friendship an Englishman makes on holiday, that he can make only on holiday. A friendship that crosses class and colour, a friendship that takes as its basis physical proximity and survives because the Englishman assumes the physical proximity will not continue.

In short, it was precisely the kind of friendship an Englishman makes on holiday, that he can make only on holiday. A friendship that crosses class and color, a friendship that takes as its basis physical proximity and survives because the Englishman assumes the physical proximity will not continue.

Audrey nodded warily. She had never cared for conspiratorial female conversation of this sort. Its assumption of shared preoccupations was usually unfounded in her experience, its intimacies almost always the trapdoor to some subterranean hostility.

And she declared her first novel a manifesto against the "arrogance" of whites assuming that "black lives are only defensive reactions to white actions.

Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

It's worth noting that the assumption that something can't happen has the potential to make it happen, since people who believe it can't happen will engage in risky behaviour, and thus alter the environment.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?

And the conviction stands that there must be knowledge to be had, if only we could get it. Perhaps that is what is wrong: an assumption about the possibility of knowledge and the kind of knowledge that it must be.

All conspiracy-spotting should start from the assumption that even an almighty cock-up is always more likely than a complex conspiracy.

We tend to take what is familiar for what is natural

A people is what is seen before the eyes or what history reveals; a race is what is looked for and is often assumed." Here was one of the first explicit intimations that race might be an intellectual rather than a biological construct.

I call the PAEI the Textbook Manager because one finds him only in textbooks.1 At this point, what should be clear is that no one person behaves like a PAEI. The textbooks that describe management assume a perfect person who does not exist.

Never assume that any activity is anything more than attention-getting until you have excluded this element.

Are you ignorant enough to expect horsemanship from blacksmiths?

Si supones que está allí, por lo general no estarás lejos de la verdad

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…

Of course, the way Ramos had acted probably made it seem like I was his girlfriend, but did they have to think I wasn't his type? At all?

Whatever you think someone feels is most likely the exact opposite.

In my limited experience, women dreaded male statements that ended with "then you've got another think coming." It usually meant there was a lot more coming, but in this case there wasn't.

With things like this, when people don't really understand what has happened, they'll assume the worst long before they have to. It's a little like when people are afraid of the dark. Often it's not the darkness they're afraid of, it's the fact that they don't know what's in it. And because they can't see, because they're not sure, they start to imagine there are more sinister things afoot than there ordinarily would be.