Never Assume Quotes - Page 2

• If you never assume importance, you never lose it.

  Laozi

  Assuming, Assumption, Importance

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• All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

  Theodore Bikel

  Strong, Humility, Justice

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• Never assume someone is smarter than you.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Assuming, Smarter

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• Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Guitar, Musician

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.25, Paladin Press

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• You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Assuming, Should, Crushed

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

  Hugh Hopper

  Giving, Musician, Assuming

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• Never assume greatness is for someone else. Imagine every day that you too can do great things. Have the courage to take the challenge, make the mistakes, and move forward.

  Brandi Chastain

  Mistake, Moving, Greatness

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• The language in New Mexico is very different. At first when you hear the speech here, you don't really know what to do with it, but then I just went with it, because as a writer as well as a translator I do believe that translated words are not different names for the same thing. They're different names for different things. I tried to stay as true as I could, so I used Ruben Cobos' dictionary of Southwestern Spanish, and when I went into Spanish I never assumed the word I would use would be the word a nuevomexicano would use.

  Ana Castillo

  Believe, Different, Language

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

  Abraham Pais

  Moving, Games, Would Be

  "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.

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• I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.

  Tracy Chapman

  Surprise, Honestly, Happens

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• As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never assume that only a few people will appreciate what I do. At all times, the public should be able to understand what I've done, even if they don't understand how I've done it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Appreciate, People

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• Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.

  John Adams

  Assuming, Increase, Admire

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• Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.

  Robin McKinley

  Odds, People, Needs

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• Frankly speaking, I could never even imagine that such information would be of interest to the American public or that the campaign headquarters of one of the candidates - in this case, Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton - apparently worked for her, rather than for all the Democratic Party candidates in an equal manner. I could never assume that anybody would find it interesting.

  Vladimir Putin

  Party, Interesting, Information

  Source: thesaker.is

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• It is very curious that the United States and Canada both assume that diversity means only race and ethnicity. They never assume it might mean more Nazis, or more Southern Baptists. That's diversity too, you know.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Mean, Ethnicity, Race

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.

  Tom Verlaine

  Perfect, Advertising Business, May

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• There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbs all these incorporeal spirits, and the perfume of all these flowers.

  Jean Paul

  Spring, Flower, Angel

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• A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.

  Damian Pettigrew

  Topics, Portraits, Assuming

  Le Parisien, May, 2003.

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• I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!

  Joseph Morgan

  Jobs, Actors, Assuming

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

  Don Roff

  Creative, Students, Assuming

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• Never assume that you can make it alone. You need the help of the Lord. Never hesitate to get on your knees in some private place and speak with Him.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspiration, Needs, Knees

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• Never take biblical interpretation lightly. Never assume you've arrived or learned all that you can. Be a lifelong learner, but always apply what you're learning to yourself in real-life situations. Accurate interpretation is meant to lead to obedience.

  Craig Blomberg

  Biblical, Assuming, Obedience

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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