#assumptions

With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#around #assumptions #everyone #expectations #film

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#assumptions #conviction #must #ready #stick

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ↗

— Henry Winkler

#assumptions #relationships

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

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals. ↗

— George Eliot

#simplicity #life

Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in. ↗

— Alan Alda

#awhile #begin #challenging #come #every

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#argument #assumptions #euclid #examine #me

Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation. ↗

— John Spratt

#big #equipment #iraqi #iraqi people #liberators

If I had a dollar for every time a random woman walked up to me and tried to seduce me, I'd have 50 cents. That's assuming drag queens are half price. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#cents #discount #dollar #drag-queen #drag-queens

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#assumptions #capable #capacity #caught #creative