Assuming Quotes - Page 7

I think that it's much brighter just to assume that you're an animal in the jungle and you have to survive.

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species, culture, family, and by the past in general. . . . It is rare for a human being to have free will. . . . (140)

I assume that normally the Lord will be bringing people to himself through the instrumentality of the preached word. However, we have to be very careful that we don't assume that if we are 'X' faithful in evangelism, then we will see 'Y' results right now. It doesn't work like that.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box.

Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

New technologies make it possible for even the mass marketer to assume the role of a small proprietor, doing business again wit individuals, one at a time.

The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.

We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.