#assume

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#break #candy #children #collapse #instantly

I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time. ↗

— George Shearing

#assume #better #current #duke #duke ellington

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#assume #because #been #began #british

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#any #assume #attention #book #day

We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#alerts #ample #assume #attack #cannot

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#before #bob #brother #candidate #contributions

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#book #classic #definition #everyone #often

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#among #analysis #assumed #basically #college

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending. ↗

— Rafael Correa

#absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #anybody #assume

When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#hard #people #way #you