Assumption Quotes

680 quotes by 563 authors

A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation… — Edgar Schein
Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources. — Andrew Solomon
Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around. — Mark Parker
Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil… — Lois McMaster Bujold
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. — William Lyon Phelps
A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's… — Satoshi Kanazawa
The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only… — Unknown Author
...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far as… — Robert McNamara
Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between… — Charles Lyell
Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle. — Hugh Nibley
The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making. — Douglas Adams
If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of… — Thomas Sowell
The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse.… — Thomas Sowell
They charge us with anti-Semitismâ€¦The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that causes them to… — Pat Buchanan
Analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best when parameters are known, assumptions are minimal, and the future is not… — John P. Kotter
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no… — Knut Hamsun
I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy. — Robin Hobb
Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more… — Adam Grant
We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of… — Ken Robinson

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