Assumptions Quote by Elizabeth Thornton

People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another.

— Paul Ekman

People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably spend the rest of their lives trying to explain how their wrongness was paradoxically correct,…

— Chuck Klosterman

Narratively speaking, innocent misunderstandings are disappointing. Arbitrary events are also disappointing. The stories that really grab our attention involve not accidents but people doing…

— Celeste Ng

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

— Anonymous

We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we…

— Errol Morris

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp…

— George Sand

All too often we're filled with negative and limiting beliefs. We're filled with doubt. We're filled with guilt or with a sense of unworthiness.…

— Jack Canfield

we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments

— Richard Carlson

We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything! The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are truth. We could swear…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge…

— Sean Covey

As individuals, we often fail to see that our decisions to act in some way are nothing but reactions to what we have been…

— Anonymous

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

— Philibert Joseph Roux