Assuming Quotes

Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide.

I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!

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

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

Assume nothing, question everything.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.

Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

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.

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven’t won one against a white person.

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

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

Challenge everything, assume nothing.

If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

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

If we speak poorly about that which we do well... people will assume we perform poorly!

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different.

Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?

As you make a prototype, assume you are right and everyone else is wrong. When you share your prototype, assume you are wrong and everyone else is right.

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

We all assume the worst the best we can.

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.

One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.

We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.