Top 1200 Never Assume Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I tell my team you have to aim for success, but assume failure.

We can't always assume that we'll score two or three goals.

The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life

Assume' makes an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'.

Is it cynical to assume that anyone smiling is a liar and a criminal?

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

I assume I have the lowest blood pressure of any candidate.

We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen.

You can't skip a step and assume you're going to get to where you want to be.

Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

That's the poisoned chalice: when you're shy, people assume you're arrogant.

You can assume all you want about me. It doesn't mean that it's true.

A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters.

Introverts almost never cause me trouble and are usually much better at what they do than extroverts. Extroverts are too busy slapping one another on the back, team building, and making fun of introverts to get much done. Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow responsible.

Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

People assume I work hard on my body, but I honestly don't.

Why does everyone always assume the quarterback is the leader?

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

You can't force people in the country to assume power.

Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

Let us assume nothing, and we shall not be moritifed.

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a garden or on a tree and never saw a deep fryer. They are capable of making it through diner at a sit-down restaurant with tablecloths and no climbing equipment. Children deserve quality nourishment.

Because he sounded so lost-the Eric I knew had never been one to do anything other than assume others should serve him-I patted around under the covers for his hand. When I found it, I slid my own over it. His palm was turned up to meet my palm, and his fingers clasped mine. And though I would not have thought it possible to go to sleep holding hands with a vampire, that's exactly what I did.

I assume people know how to hit the unfollow.

Nobody really knows everything, and they can only assume.

Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.

I don't assume that I am going to be cast as a Glaswegian landlord.

Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.

I think when you take a job, you assume you can win regardless of what they have or don't have.

I assume there's a lot of intelligent football fans in England.

Don't assume I'm dumb because I wear a suit and tie.

Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.

None of us should assume stuff.

I assume you know what to do with this. That's why you were hired.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

To become a world-class university takes a lot of time. There are simply no shortcuts. People tend to assume, and I have encountered this sort of thinking all over the world, that if they just sink enough money into a university, it will emerge in a few years as a first-class institution. But such rapid growth never happens. It takes time; it takes generations.

I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics.

If you have problems in your life, don’t assume there is something wrong with you.

Your game stalls when you assume you're the finished product.

We shouldn't assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing.

Financially, people always assume you're good when you're a rapper.

To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

People assume that if you are an actress, you must not be very educated.

I think every organization needs to assume that they are compromised.

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.