Assumptions Quotes

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.

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

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

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

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.

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

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.