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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.

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.

All believers can increase their commitment to God by reflecting on His faithfulness and by considering the forms such commitment should assume in their experience.

A guy should find out what the woman likes. Every woman is different, so you can't just assume what works on one will work on another.

A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true.

A lot of people put a lot of restrictions on their ability to develop. And that's fine for you if that's what you feel your limitations are, but I think it's wrong when you assume someone is not natural because you are imposing your limitations on someone else.

A lot of times you see really good-looking guys on TV and you sort of assume that maybe there's some sort of vacuity behind them.

A lot of us spend our lives assuming we are going to get around to those things we want to do.

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.

Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.

Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.

A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the best of circumstances, the relationship is clear enough so that the mathematician can submit his or her reasoning to an informal checklist, passing from step to step with the easy confidence the steps are small enough so that he cannot be embarrassed nor she tripped up.

And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

And in English Canada, no one really knows where the support is coming from, but Conservatives would assume that it's bleeding from the Liberals. So we have a divided left in Canada.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

Assume nothing, question everything.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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 oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.

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