Quotes About Assumptions

I tend to play strong characters and people just assume that I would want to play romantic comedies, which I would love to do, but there are other women that do it so great and they maybe couldn't do what I do, play the kind of characters that I play.

When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.

I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.

Anybody that's ever been to Israel and to Palestine knows that you can't look at a person and tell if they're Israeli or Palestinian. You can assume. But I've seen Palestinians who look Swedish, and I've seen Israelis who are black.

There are no simple congruities in life or history. The cult of happiness erroneously assumes them.

Well, go on. I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

We don't have to stop inventing abstract models that describe the behavior of imaginary Econs. We do, however, have to stop assuming that those models are accurate descriptions of behavior, and stop basing policy decisions on such flawed analyses.

Economic theory textbooks would stop on the first page if the assumption of well-ordered preferences had to be abandoned, because without stable preferences there is nothing to be optimized.

Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to accept others and their culture instead of always carrying along our own country's assumptions and calling them the Gospel.

Hence, there is no such thing as an absolute objectivity of attitude. The most rigorously determined attitude of objectivity is, at best, relative. We are human; we are the slaves of our assumptions, of time and circumstance; we are the victims of our passions and illusions; and the most our critics can ask of us is this: Have you taken your passions, your illusions, your time, and your circumstance into account?

Never make financial decisions based on what you assume you'll be earning in the future.

He rolled his eyes. First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either. I sputtered a laugh. I think that's Swiss.

people always credit Prime Ministers with more brains than they've got.

We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

In a society in which everyone is assumed and expected to be economically self-sufficient, as an example, doesn't economic dependency almost automatically mean poverty? No attention is given to such issues.)

We act upon assumptions that control our view of reality, even though reality might be quite different... By definition, what is unthinkable isn't part of our reality... your assumptions about what is possible prevent you from accurately seeing the reality before you.

At all levels, people operate with many assumptions in mind—but these assumptions are rarely documented and are often in conflict between different developers.

Companies say they value great design. But they assume that to do great design they need a rock star designer. But great design doesn't live inside designers. It lives inside your users' heads. You get inside your users heads by doing good UX research: research that provides actionable and testable insights into users' needs.

Never, ever, ever, act on assumptions. Search out the facts and act on those.

It was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story on false assumptions. You could make truths out of untruths and untruths out of truths. Until you spoke them, really said them out loud or checked for sure, you may not have known which were which.

It's always your assumptions about you, about others, about future that make reality worse than it actually is.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.