Quotes About Assumptions

First impressions are often entirely wrong.

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

I think it ought not to be set down as certain, that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

She expected from other people the same opinions and feelings as her own, and she judged of their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.

You've got to get out and walk. Walk, and you will see that many of the assumptions on which the projects depend are visibly wrong. You will see, for example, that a worthy and well-kept institutional center does not necessarily upgrade its surroundings.

One ought not to fall in love with someone by way of their writing. One must be especially careful if the writing is good, for then one assumes the writer is good, funny, clever, profound, sensitive, smart, wise, loving, and true. It is unfair to the writer and dangerous to the reader to hold the writer to the standards of his writing, for in his writing, the writer is his best self; in person, he is a person, and we all know what that means.

When he looked at me, I saw my own soul. His gaze broke through all my assumptions, all my barriers. I was stripped to the very essence of my being. He saw all my lies and my failures and all my sinful ways. And yet he loved me still.

Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

Stereotypes start somewhere. There's different sides to all of us.

I believe it's on everyone - men and women - to knock down stereotypes and outdated assumptions.

We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.

Someone with my name and my appearance comes with preconceived ideas attached. My mission is to erase as many preconceived ideas, barriers, and stereotypes as I can.

Stay Out' is about all the stereotypes of people you meet out and about.

Your stereotypical L.A. Persian kids were not working at Sbarro pizza in the mall, but I was.

You walk into a room and there's already judgment. You know, like football players can't act or you're going to come in and be stiff.

Initially, I was very skeptical about getting involved because I, much like many Americans, had preconceived notions about Stormy Daniels and her motivations and what she is all about.

what the effect would be of overturning prevailing assumptions and of adopting … a fundamental orientation towards the ground.

Our point is, if you try to approach every problem with your moral compass, first and foremost, you're going to make a lot of mistakes. You're going to exclude a lot of possible good solutions. You're going to assume you know a lot of things, when in fact you don't, and you're not going to be a good partner in reaching a solution with other people who don't happen to see the world the way you do.

Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place.

Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place. When you have a lot of experience with something, you don't notice the things that are new about it. You don't notice the idiosyncrasies that need to be tweaked. You don't notice where the gaps are, what's missing, or what's not really working.