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… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit,… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions. — George Barna Copy Share Image
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities. — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
I like the rough impersonality of New York ... Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't… — Lev Yilmaz Copy Share Image
Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest,… — H. Ned Seelye Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers… — Richard Marcinko Copy Share Image
A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your feelings and assumptions, testing… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Putin is a despot, and he's a very good despot. And he will see things in a narrow way. What is good… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights… — Asra Nomani Copy Share Image
The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
People do make assumptions about models. That's their issue, not mine. It doesn't bother me because I'm comfortable enough in my own… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me,… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability. — David Platt Copy Share Image
Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now. — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science. — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. — George Soros Copy Share Image
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
“Making the assumption that I am in the presence of criminals has always kept me safe when interacting with police officers.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption. — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
