Quotes About Assumptions

Don't assume your partner knows about everything you expect in a relationship. Let him know. A relationship should be based on communication, not on assumptions.

A woman can be judged by her cooking, her dressing and her husband.

If a person understands what the Bible says, and if he does not impose his own stupid assumptions upon it, then the Bible will never appear contradictory to him. He will never see even one apparent contradiction in the Bible. This is because the Bible never contradicts itself.

Being insecure -- now that's femininity. Unassuming. A good listener. Not too intellectually impressive. Just cultured enough to understand what some asshole has to say. Chatting is feminine. Anything that doesn't leave a mark.

I know," Wenling said. "When I first came here, everyone wanted to be friends with the Chinese girl. And you know what they serve me when I'm invited to their house for dinner? Still? Chinese food. Every. Single. Time.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect.

Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.

Be careful about making assumptions of expertise, ask experts if you can find them, reexamine your assumptions from time to time.

There's no chance of their having a conscious glimpse of the truth as long as they refuse to disturb the things they take for granted and remain incapable of explaining them. For if your starting-point is unknown, and your end-point and intermediate stages are woven together out of unknown material, there may be coherence, but knowledge is completely out of the question.

Don't make assumptions. Ask and let me explain. Don't decide what you think I feel.

Over time, I discovered that learning new things doesn't always liberate you. Instead it makes you wonder if your pants are on backward or if the trees are holding the sky up - it makes you question all of your assumptions and conventions.

All I'd done in better than two decades was tread forward until I reached the limit of certain assumptions, and stepped off.

They didn't think black people were necessarily good, don't get me wrong, they just thought everyone—regardless of what color they were—was probably an asshole. And to say you were less of an asshole because your skin was lighter was reprehensible to them. It just made you a bigger asshole.

There were things that could be planned for, but none of them involved women.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

Since I worked with Prince, people assumed that I was black.

I've read in a couple stories that I was raised Episcopalian, but that's not true. I think that's just people assuming things. In some ways, I wish I was raised Episcopalian. I was kind of raised hodgepodge.

I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when they think of poor black people in the South, they don't think people are interested in reading about those people.

I came from the NFL, so people didn't like that, or they just try to make assumptions, and I think when you assume, you look stupid.

Some people, they make these assumptions before they even listen to the music.

That's sort of what showbusiness is - a charade. People are basing their assumptions about you on half the facts. The rest of it just isn't true.