Assume Quotes

Campaigning and governing are two very different activities, and there is no reason to assume that how Trump conducted the former will dictate how he approaches the latter.

I assume that the worst will happen. So I’m never optimistic.

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don’t know and you assume that many of your readers don’t know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

I think everyone assumes that I talk to my parents a lot about writing, but I didn’t – they’re my parents. We didn’t have constant workshops running in my household.

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort – good food or junk food – and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

Until I was about 13, somehow I managed to assume that everyone reacted to everything just about as I did. I took it for granted that everyone shared my passion for overcast skies. It came as quite a shock when I discovered that there were actually people who preferred sunshine.

Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you’re cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

If you’ve done a bit of journalism, everyone assumes you must be moving into PR. We’re absolutely not becoming a PR agency and we’re not turning into Brunswick. We will remain SRU, but we will be owned by the Brunswick Group. It’s quite different.

Every time I try to plan something or assume that something’s going to happen, it never works out like that.

You should never assume about someone.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

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

I think that people assume when they meet me that I’m going to judge what they’re wearing.

In the mind of the public, the word ‘planet’ carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies… many members of the public assume that alleged ‘non-planets’ cease to be interesting enough to warrant scientific exploration.

Most voters assume because these political ‘pros‘ are on TV or write for national papers, they know politics. Sadly, most don’t have a clue.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

It’s always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated.

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it’s been forgotten.

So the next thing I assume I’ll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

I think half the time I just assume I don’t really know what I’m doing – you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don’t have to think you’re an idiot savant.

I don’t know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you’re a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that’s not the case.

Most economists, when modeling market behavior, tend to sweep major fluctuations under the rug and assume they are anomalies. What I have found is that major rises and falls in prices are actually inevitable.

I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and assume that by understanding the Scriptures better, the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the right stories, the right teachings.

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

None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti’s example.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you’re producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

Books about spies and traitors – and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors – generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

On the basis of Lorentz’s theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.

We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don’t believe in Americans, who will?

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.

I have a Chicago personality, which means that just because I’m friends with one person, I don’t assume I’m friends with his friends.

When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don’t want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

It would be really dangerous for us to assume that Christian hip-hop‘s popularity equals racial unity.

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day.

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they’re exposed to as if it’s already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

If I’ve learned anything, it’s to live in the moment, and the gift that cancer gives you is, you just assume I’m only here today, and I am going to seize that moment and cherish it.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.