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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.
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.
People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they're wrong.
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to systems.
The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package.
That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.
I started to think about the assumptions we make that everyone we meet operates under the same moral code, and how betrayed we feel when that isn't the case.
If I look smart and feel confident, other people's bigoted assumptions have less power to harm me.
People do make assumptions about models. That's their issue, not mine. It doesn't bother me because I'm comfortable enough in my own skin - I know who I am.
Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them.
As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble.
Business as usual doesn't work, that we're in a time where we have to rethink a lot of the basic ground rules and assumptions of our civilizations.
I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.
You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are unsupported, and that it flies in the face of common sense.
In general, fashion is decorative, it's protective, it acknowledges that the world does involve conflict, and you might be attacked by assumptions, presumptions, and attitudes.
As a man, having a conversation about feminism can be tricky - the best I can do is to have assumptions and ask questions. You always run the risk of putting your foot in it.
As trust in institutions erodes, the basic assumptions of fairness, shared values, and equal opportunity traditionally upheld by 'the system' are no longer taken for granted.
Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.
Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.
The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts.
Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
That's sort of what showbusiness is - a charade. People are basing their assumptions about you on half the facts. The rest of it just isn't true.
We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.
Stand-up comics tend to make two assumptions: that Christians have no sense of humour and that all their audiences are unbelievers.
People still make all sorts of assumptions about me. I've just gone past the point of caring.
Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting.
U.K. policy in Libya before and since the intervention of March 2011 was founded on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the country and the situation.
Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.
By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
People make assumptions when you're not married. I've been best man at five weddings and I said I'd never do it again 'cos everyone got divorced.
A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.
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.
In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.
When you build a product, you make a lot of assumptions about the state of the art of technology, the best business practices, and potential customer usage/behavior.
The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.
My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
I want to make movies and pieces of television and pieces of art that crack everyone's assumptions.
That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.
I came from the NFL, so people didn't like that, or they just try to make assumptions, and I think when you assume, you look stupid.
Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.
I'm about challenging people. Like, properly challenging them and their assumptions.
What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.
Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs.
It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel.
Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured.
To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
The pervasive idea is that if you're a man in the fashion industry, you're gay until proven otherwise. And of course there are lots of men who aren't. But people make certain assumptions.
