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Assumes Quotes
On the quiet assumptions behind ambition, risk, and order.
This collection looks at what people and systems assume without saying so, from entrepreneurs accepting risk to entire economic theories built on hidden premises. One even ties creative drama to the order it later disrupts. Related reflections continue in our Character collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
An inevitable question asked of a performer who has made a modest success of his career is, 'How has success changed you?' It's a loaded question because it automatically assumes that there has been a change. And, in a sense, the assumption is a correct one. Basically, however, most people remain pretty much the same.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everyone assumes that I talk to my parents a lot about writing, but I didn't - they're my parents. We didn't have constant workshops running in my household.
- Component
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
- Freer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dull routine of our daily job takes on a new significance, assumes a beauty and importance undreamt of before, if we consider it from the angle of service to God.
- Opposite
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the polymer chain assumes a helicoidal conformation in the crystalline state, and if it does not contain asymmetric carbon atoms, it can be expected that either helices of the same sense, or, in equal ratio, helices of opposite sense are represented in the lattice.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020