Best 478 quotes in «assuming quotes» category

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

A sermon is a valuable thing now and so impressive when you do hear a good one - and there is a lot of failure in the attempt; it's a difficult form - is because it's so seldom true now that you hear people speak under circumstances where they assume they are obliged to speak seriously and in good faith, and the people who hear them are assumed to be listening seriously and in good faith.

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

Assume nothing, question everything.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

Assume that everybody can see what you are doing and then live your life that way - you will find that generally you are treated right.

Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you distrust them, question your own assumptions.

Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows.

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

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

Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life

Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.

Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people.

As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.

As you make a prototype, assume you are right and everyone else is wrong. When you share your prototype, assume you are wrong and everyone else is right.

But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box.

But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.

Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.

Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.

Challenge everything, assume nothing.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept that responsibility.

Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.

Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.

Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that 'the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted.

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.

Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.

Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system.

Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight.