Assuming Quotes - Page 3

The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.

Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Assume nothing, question everything.

Never ASSUME, because when you ASSUME, you make an ASS of U and ME.

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.

Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.

If you don't enjoy what you're doing, how can you assume anyone else will

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent is a word we use after someone has become accomplished.

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter.

I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

A lot of times you see really good-looking guys on TV and you sort of assume that maybe there's some sort of vacuity behind them.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.