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Assumptions Quotes

A number of people have read 'Two-Way Split' and made certain assumptions about what the author's like, and I'm highly disappointing to them. I don't drink, I don't eat meat; that's very disappointing for a hard-boiled writer.

People Assumptions Drink Eat Meat

Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment.

American Assumptions Never Next Fail

I started to think about the assumptions we make that everyone we meet operates under the same moral code, and how betrayed we feel when that isn't the case.

Think Feel Assumptions Moral Meet

It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel.

Daily Moment Assumptions Values Race

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

History Habit Mistake Assumptions

Political assumptions can remain constant for long periods and then change very quickly.

Change Political Long Assumptions

Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.

Life Assumptions Comfortable Never

My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.

Me Thinking Doing Assumptions You

You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going.

Vision Team Assumptions You Down

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Don Miguel Ruiz

Truth Believe Assumptions See Take

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

William Lyon Phelps

Assumptions You Three Company Out

As trust in institutions erodes, the basic assumptions of fairness, shared values, and equal opportunity traditionally upheld by 'the system' are no longer taken for granted.

Richard Edelman

Opportunity Trust Assumptions Values

Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

Thought Assumptions Lazy Spotlight

There were a lot of assumptions that we were raised a certain way. Our dad was always really clear with us that he is rich and we are not: 'If you want to be rich, you should go do what I did, which is work really hard.'

Work Rich Assumptions You Go Want

There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting.

Stress Me Saying Assumptions Without

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.

Women Struggle Assumptions Class

We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

Karin Slaughter

Good Assumptions Dark Be Nice Nice

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

Me Assumptions Argument Without Any

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.

Past Literature Assumptions Now Been

First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True Lies.' Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. 'Smashes' stereotypes. That's where I've come into the game.

Game Black Assumptions You Place

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

Assumptions You Ready Conviction

Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner sits outside and is threatening. If he comes in, that's the most threatening of all.

Assumptions Person Sharing Outside

I'm like anyone; I make a lot of my assumptions about actors I don't know from what I read about them. And then I'll find those judgments are often completely confounded when I meet them in real life.

Life Assumptions Find Know Meet

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Relationship Assumptions Relationships

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