Assuming Quotes
1443 quotes by 1146 authors
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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
— Thomas Jefferson
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
— Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression…
— Daniel Kahneman
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The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan,…
— Daniel Kahneman
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We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all…
— Daniel Kahneman
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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…
— Henry J. Kaiser
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I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less…
— Michio Kaku
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I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on…
— Maynard James Keenan
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One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no…
— Imran Khan
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An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
— Victor Kiam
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They…
— Victor Kiam
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What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its…
— Stephen King
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Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.
— Martin Kippenberger
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what…
— Ashton Kutcher
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Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people…
— R. D. Laing
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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
— Anne Lamott
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I don't feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don't care if people think I'm gay or not. Assume whatever you…
— Queen Latifah
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
— Damian Lewis
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