Quotes About Assumptions

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

I like it when art presents a paradigm shift, when it forces me to confront my assumptions, when it asks, "Why this way and not another way?

But even if you're good at blank slating, have no expectations and no assumptions, listen well, take great notes, refrain from excessive talking, and don't spill beans—even if you're the perfect blank slater, the world outside the negotiation can still intrude on your ability to blank slate. If you're overly tired, it's difficult to focus.

Your ability to blank slate is directly related to your ability to rid yourself of expectations and assumptions, two very bad words in my system of negotiation.

Using selective evidence out of context and ignoring evidence that doesn't fit in with basic assumptions, it is possible to attack virtually everything and sound knowledgeable doing it.

One of the most incomprehensible features of a crowd is the tenacity with which the members adhere to erroneous assumptions despite mounting evidence to challenge them.

One of the most incomprehensible features of a crowd is the tenacity with which the members adhere to erroneous assumptions despite mounting evidence to challenge them.6 So when an individual adheres to a market position despite the mounting losses, he is a crowd.

The trouble with being able to lift heavy things is that when heavy things need lifting folk step out of the way and smile at you.

occlusions derive from colonial scripts: some derive from the conceptual habits we bring to them and the implicit assumptions that our conceptual repertoires leave unaddressed. Sometimes that distinction is hard to draw. Occlusions have multiple sources not easily untangled.

Rumors often reflect the wishes of others.

Troubles always ensue when assumptions clash, when expectations do not match.

Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming.

The way we process new information is driven by the beliefs we hold, strengthening them.

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

There are groups of haters who always try to malign my image. They question my character and make all kinds of false announcements. It hurts because they assume things and without any proof in hand.

People assume that we have certain rights based on property that may be different now in a digital world.

What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.

In general, fashion is decorative, it's protective, it acknowledges that the world does involve conflict, and you might be attacked by assumptions, presumptions, and attitudes.

The best I can tell you in that way is that I'm much more at ease with fellow-Catholics than I am with heathens or Protestants. One has so many basic assumptions in common that there's so much that doesn't need saying, and when you're talking to even the most amusing and intelligent heathen you suddenly find that something you've said has no meaning at all to them.

No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

We have all these cultural assumptions about love. People get hurt, and we say, 'Oh, it's no one's fault.'

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used.