Assuming Quotes - Page 11

Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you from conventionalism, faddishness, and cliché.

I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

A lot of people put a lot of restrictions on their ability to develop. And that's fine for you if that's what you feel your limitations are, but I think it's wrong when you assume someone is not natural because you are imposing your limitations on someone else.

Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require in-depth analysis.

When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it.

To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption.

To achieve major success in life - to achieve those things that are most important to you - you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness.

You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard.

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.

I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to assume I was one, which is rich, I know. I didn't meet a writer until I was nearly an adult, so I had no idea what I'd bet the farm on.

The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.

In varying degrees, the authority of the dharma was replaced by the authority of the guru, who came, in some traditions, to assume the role of the Buddha himself.

What I don't like are arrogant people. We're all equal. I don't like it when a person assumes to be better.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

Open theists affirm the same openness of the future that religious believers assume when they pray and almost all humans assume when they act. The open future is intuitive; but can it be rigorously defended? God in an Open Universe shows that it can. Open theism has always been an attractive view of God; now it becomes a philosophically rigorous one as well.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure.

Only humans are judgmental, and because you are, you assume that I must be. Yet I am not, and that is the great truth you cannot accept.