#assumption

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. ↗

— Abraham Harold Maslow

#instrumentalism #problem-solving #problems

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else. ↗

— Gary Becker

#criminals #different #else #everyone #had

You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues. ↗

— Adam Clayton

#dealing #health #issues #make #you

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption. ↗

— Phil Collins

#assumption #been #bothered #each #i

I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#assumptions #become #days #early #edit

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#been #before #court #done #gone

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#confined #deal #education #forces #fundamental

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#assumptions #cannot #categorize #continue #individual

I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#ahead #assumption #better #get #good

I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously. ↗

— Edward Grey

#been #furthermore #german #german government #government