Assumption Quotes - Page 9

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

The sneak-peeks you get off the top are of them in their real life. You're more invested, you know both of them, and you've already made assumptions. A murder who would murders someone - that makes them immediately bad - but here you see them in a different.

In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.

The main thing that we're doing is thinking we can control anything, which is the biggest false assumption we can make. I think we can figure out how to tread a lot more lightly on the environment, and we'll be a lot better off.

The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a presumed 'window of vulnerability,' which we now know not to exist.

Your working assumption, when you meet a homophobe, should be that they are gay.

My lazy, unfair assumption is that everything's easier when you're young and stunning. And maybe it is! But I'd like to see for myself.

If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.

The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured.

There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

There's been more than one time when I've said something, and sort of the middle of what I've said is not said but thought, and therefore assumed to be understood, which is a ridiculous assumption on my part, but sometimes gets me in trouble.

Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?

Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards.

If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin with the assumption of bondage, the preoccupation is always how to set out the word that frees.

Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.

One of my optimistic prophecies is based on the assumption that machines could have the best algorithms in the universe, but it will never have purpose. And the problem for us to explain purpose to a machine is because we don't know what our purpose is. We have the purpose, but we still ... When we look at this global picture, a universal picture, to understand what is our purpose being here on this planet? We don't know.

It is a dangerous assumption to say that people who drain energy "don't know what they are doing." People are sophisticated aware beings. Don't sit around and equivocate; they'll drain you more.

It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.

We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business.