Premise Quotes

167 Premise quotes by 155 unique authors

Instead of thinking that you put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with the premise that… — Myles Horton
Differentiated Instruction is a teaching philosophy based on the premise that teachers should adapt instruction to student differences. Rather than marching students through the curriculum… — Carol Ann Tomlinson
Never marry something until you've established the perfect pizza ratio...The premise is simple. My husband and I knew we were made for each other because… — Celia Rivenbark
One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through every page. Sometimes,… — Philip K. Jason
Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his… — Saul Bellow
I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad. — Ed Benguiat
The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele,… — Wilford Brimley
Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions depends on a… — Isaac Asimov
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the… — Ayn Rand
Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about… — Moshe Safdie
Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the… — John Ralston Saul
The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate… — Harry A. Blackmun
But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and move… — Ferdinand Porsche
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of… — Irving Kristol
The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror… — Natan Sharansky
To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim is to imply… — Ezra Jack Keats
As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be… — Steve Israel
Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular… — Linwood Barclay
You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin… — Cornell Woolrich
This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly… — Adolf Hitler
People tune in to the Fox News Channel because it was founded on the premise that all sides should be presented fairly. This has upset… — Alan Colmes
God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Much of the philosophy of religious education has been based upon a false premise, and perhaps many have missed the essence of Christian experience, having… — Billy Graham
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender… — John Green

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