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
...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
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
“Your desire to advise other people, grows in line with your perception... that assumes you're wiser than them.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
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
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The notion by most women that every man that comes into their lives want something from them is overrated; some come to… — POB Bismark Copy Share Image
They charge us with anti-Semitism…The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I believe that we should take every opportunity to challenge the assumption that our European allies are doing us a favor whenever… — Chester Bowles Copy Share Image
Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
So the misplaced assumption is that we have this whole new institutional element where these [financial] institutions are looking after their own… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women.… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
We should be on our guard against the temptation to argue directly from skill to capacity, and to assume when a man… — Tom Hatherley Pear Copy Share Image
Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
Since the waiting time required during the rendering process has been dramatically shorter in the last 10 years, I think that CGI… — Katsuhiro Otomo Copy Share Image
There has always been a confusion in the West about -Islam and about the Middle East and the assumption that the countries… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
“This is heaven- sunshine, coffee, and muffin." "You're so different from everyone else," he teased. "How so?" she asked, and took another… — Lynne Ewing Copy Share Image
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
The evidence here, as elsewhere, suggests that education is certainly relevant, but more because better education is associated with general differences in… — Mildred Blaxter Copy Share Image
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
We need to challenge this assumption that any child who's alone, who isn't being directly supervised and observed, is a child in… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other. — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
My operating assumption is we will always have very tough competition. And even with some European banks struggling right now, some of… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions. — Wassily Leontief Copy Share Image
I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant. — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
Hate it when people assume things about people when they're the exact opposite of the assumption. No one deserves that, just let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image