Two people don’t see same event as opportunity. When one see it a problem; other look to capitalize it for optimum benefit

It’s as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn’t – which, of course, is pretty often – she is surprised and affronted.

While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there’s a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.

It wakes us right up.

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself...

Often she felt as though she had been picked up and turned about like a kaleidoscope, that all her complacent assumptions had been shaken up and reassembled in a different order

We all make assumptionsevery day. Some more important than others. Some more damagingthan others. And things, very often, are not at all what they seem.

The genius of cynicism is that it is a voice in your ear it does not usually hang around long enough to be interviewed. It is usually expressed in innuendos, passing remarks, moods, cartoons, hints,...

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition – and added in assumption / projection

[…] a familiar art historical narrative […] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. […] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition...

Don’t build roadblocks out of assumptions.

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

Drop all those assumptions that success is built on success. Add a very little value to yourself and it will amaze you how you will see people appreciate that value!

When looking for evidence that something exists, it’s silly to start by assuming that it is impossible. Taking any assumptions into study is bad science.

Never judge a woman by her age.

Every rock-thrower needs something to stand on to have any accuracy or do any damage with the rocks.

Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches.

Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics,...

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.

God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts come from society or culture, and it is here that problems develop.

I feel no grief for being called somethingwhichI am not;in fact, it’s enthralling, somehow, like a goodback rub

Washington not only fit the bill physically, he was also almost perfect psychologically, so comfortable with his superiority that he felt no need to explain himself. (As a young man during the French and Indian...

We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition...

TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: “It won’t work. You can’t cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary’s clerk.

If you’re the sole survivor of an army attacked by us, are you going to say we had our asses handed to us by petite, nubile females, or by she-monsters who can bench Buicks?

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.

One’s opinion should only be as strong as one’s knowledge on the matter.

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.

I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almost like the military – or a disciplined, up-to-date military anyway – in its focus on concrete results. How else...

People in one of two states in a relationship. The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion overrides irritability. It’s a buffer. Their spouse will do something bad, and they’ll say,’Oh,...

I had people saying ‘it’s all in your head’. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?

An assumption is the joke; truth the punchline.

He treats the person as if they were fully whole.We become what others expect us to be. Dad expected me to get better and even assumed I would have something helpful to say. Funny how...

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other’s humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation...

The strength of one’s opinion should not exceed their knowledge on the matter.

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I’d rather be a good one. Wouldn’t you?

Lahat ng mga salitang yan may dating sa’yo. Sabi kasi ng isip mo.

There is no growth in assuming. For it does not give, it takes away.

Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

Character displays “the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.

Oh, yes.” There was no shame in it. Sometimes there wasn’t time to do anything else but take a flying leap. Sometimes you had to trust to experience and intuition and general awareness and take...

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.