Assuming Quotes
1443 quotes by 1145 authors
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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.
— Indra Nooyi
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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…
— Adam Braun
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Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works.…
— Criss Jami
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How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to…
— Criss Jami
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Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or…
— Kevin Carson
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With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!
— Qiu Jin
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every…
— Hermann Hesse
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Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.
— Marie Clay
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Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.
— Madame de Stael
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Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening…
— Alan Lewis
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I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take…
— Bill Vaughan
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If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of…
— George Steiner
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If we're looking for intelligence in the universe I think everybody assumes that this has to start with life and so the question is: "How…
— Paul Davies
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It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global warming, which could…
— Paul Davies
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The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls…
— Brigid Schulte
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People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.
— Megan Fox
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Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of…
— Milton Friedman
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It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses…
— Jim Garrison
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I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be…
— William Gibson
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