Assumption Quotes - Page 6

• What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.

  Bryan Cranston

  People, Comedy, Assuming

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 2, 2003.

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• Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.

  John Spratt

  Two, Oil, People

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• This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Leadership, Uplifting, Ghetto

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.110, Book Tree

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• It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

  Warren Farrell

  Growing Up, America, Hearing

  "An Interview with Warren Farrell" by J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

  Stephen Rea

  Years, Wife, Matter

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• The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

  Alonzo Church

  Choices, Annoyed, Looks

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• If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

  James Q. Wilson

  Rights, Support, Public Opinion

  "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1995.

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• No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Thinking, Shoes, Knowing

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• We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

  Max Planck

  Future, Science, Law

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• 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.   The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.”

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Government, Black

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• Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

  Kavita Ramdas

  Motivation, Struggle, Inspiration

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• The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don’t take anything personally. 3. Don’t make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Agreement, Honor

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• The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.

  William Poundstone

  Grandfather, Paradox

  "Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge". Book by William Poundstone, 1988.

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• I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Healing, Belief, Conflict

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Turning to One Another (Large Print 16pt)”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

  Albert Low

  Truth, Numbers, Simplicity

  Albert Low (1976). “Zen and creative management”, Anchor Books

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• The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

  Murray Bookchin

  Thinking, Visionaries, Libertarian

  Murray Bookchin (1992). “Urbanization without cities: the rise and decline of citizenship”, Black Rose Books Ltd

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• The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

  Stephen Bayley

  Men, Tradition, Deny

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• If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

  Wendell Berry

  Winning, Resolution, Conversation

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• Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware of something is to be aware of it as something. This short circuit between "awareness of" and "awareness as" inhibits the project of self-understanding because it perpetuates the assumption that there is a point where being and knowing coincide.

  Ray Brassier

  Awareness, Short Circuit, Myth

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

  Aaron Levie

  Done, Way, Right Now

  Twitter post from Apr 13, 2013

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• Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

  Andrew Solomon

  Acceptance, Identity, Way

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Jobs, Men, Erring

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• Progress is a set of assumptions.

  Edward Albee

  Progress

  Edward Albee (2007). “Seascape: The Entire Appalling Business”, p.86, The Overlook Press

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• Meet every person with the assumption that they are your equal.

  Julian Burnside

  Equal, Persons

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• A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Recovery, Men, Essentials

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