Assuming Quotes - Page 10

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.

One of the things that surprised me the most is how often we assume that because something's fun for someone else, it makes somebody else happy, it will make us happy.

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn't do.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.

Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.

I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

It's better to just plough ahead. And if I say something they don't get, I just make fun of myself for assuming that everybody knows everything about where I live.

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes.

Assuming that just because you can hear you can listen is like assuming that just because you can see you can read.

The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.

Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.

I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.

Failure assumes the world is black and white - no gray. I've come to find, it's all gray.

What we assume, what we have never clearly thought out, controls us.

We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.

I'm not the most loved person on the planet. People assume they understand who I am by what I do.

A sermon is a valuable thing now and so impressive when you do hear a good one - and there is a lot of failure in the attempt; it's a difficult form - is because it's so seldom true now that you hear people speak under circumstances where they assume they are obliged to speak seriously and in good faith, and the people who hear them are assumed to be listening seriously and in good faith.