Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing. — Steve Blank Copy Share Image
Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so. — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The assumption that people sometimes make is that I have made a cold, calculated decision to put my career ahead of having… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Love and Other Theories challenged my assumptions, dared me to think differently and burrowed into my heart. A heart-achingly beautiful story about… — Daisy Whitney Copy Share Image
Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It is an assumption brought forth countless of times in various contexts that the world would be better, drifting slower towards the… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Tragedies such as Nevil Shute's 'On the Beach' and Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' are so powerful because there's an underlying assumption that… — David Brin Copy Share Image
The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is… — Nicholas Eberstadt Copy Share Image
The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that… — Donald E. Graham Copy Share Image
Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
In the beginning, there were bacteria… [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
I'm sick and tired of this stuff. I'm sick of them doing it. I'm sick and tired of it working. I'm sick… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are huge traditions of enormous importance, and they aren't monotheistic. Again, this reflects the fact that our preconceptions… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us,… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science. — Jonathan Sarfati Copy Share Image
In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
Every generation thinks they invented sex, which is the stupidest assumption in the world because if that was the case, you wouldn't… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work. — David Kim Copy Share Image
The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever. — David Gibbs Copy Share Image
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image