Quotes by Assuming Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. Indra Nooyi assumingdoe When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response. Indra Nooyi assumingemotionalnegative Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole? Immanuel Kant reasonabledenyassuming We all assume the worst the best we can. Iron & Wine assumingworst I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume. Italo Calvino assumingformmay You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. J. J. Abrams assumingthinking I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them. J. Robert Lennon assumingannoyedbook Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work. J. William Fulbright assumingmeanideas Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals. Jack McDevitt individualassumingintelligent To achieve major success in life - to achieve those things that are most important to you - you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do. Jack Canfield assumingimportantresponsibility Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else. Jack Welch arrogantassuminglearning Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists. Jack Vance pertinent-questionswitassuming I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me. Jack Nicholson assumingplaycharacter 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. Henry David Thoreau assumptionassumingfacts A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true. Jaime Lerner assumingpeopleideas This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga. James Berardinelli audienceassumingbrain 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. James A. Baldwin assumingartistheaven I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness. J. K. Rowling optimisticassumingwould-be I always assume that nothing that I make is going to be a success, that everything I make is going to be a failure - not a failure but not some huge box- office success. If something is an artistic success, I'll be happy, but I'll maybe be the only person that's happy. James Ivory artisticassumingoffice When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer. James L. Kraft assuminganswersmind«56789101112131415»
