Assumption Quote by James Cromwell Download Open image “Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.” — James Cromwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assumption Authority Better than you Knows Power
Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want. — William P. Young Copy Share Image
To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence. — James Hunter Copy Share Image
Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority. — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once. — Frank A. Clark Copy Share Image
Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and… — Federica Montseny Copy Share Image
I just don't like authority. I do like authority when I respect it. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face when you've gotten old and still sees… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
Barney Miller' was a lot of fun. I'm very fond of Abe Vigoda. Most - a lot of people on that cast - I… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground,… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species,… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me,… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
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Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life. — Philip Selznick Copy Share Image
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our… — Steve Perry Copy Share Image
