Quotes of Presumption - somelinesforyou

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

- Alan Alda

“ Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. ”

- Ralph Charell

“ I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. ”

- Bruce Lee

“ Employees tend to live up to their manager's expectations. If a manager's expectations are high, productivity is likely to be excellent. ”

- Unknown

“ Employees tend to live up to their managers expectations of them. If a managers expectations are high, productivity is likely to be excellent. ”

- Unknown

“ Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect thet best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ”

- Ralph Marston

“ The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. ”

- Eli Khamarov

“ Life… It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. ”

- Richard M. DeVos

“ Other people may not have had high expectations for me… but I had high expectations for myself. ”

- Shannon Miller

“ Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders. ”

- Unknown

“ Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders. ”

- Unknown

“ I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. ”

- Fritz Perls

“ When you make a film, you have to follow filmmaking rules. Like, a soundtrack… can get in the way of the serenity of the game. ”

- Michelle Rodriguez

“ This is above our every expectation. ”

- Romano Prodi

“ We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is. ”

- Sir William Draper

“ Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. ”

- John Henry Cardinal Newman

“ It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. ”

- James Thurber

“ We tend to live up to our expectations. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ High expectations are the key to everything. ”

- Sam Walton

“ When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have. ”

- Stephen Hawking

“ I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them. ”

- Mary Decker Slaney

“ The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ I really don't have an expectation. I found that expectations really get in the way. I don't make that choice. I don't decide how many carries I will have, therefore it's pointless for me to have expectations about it. ”

- Ricky Williams

“ That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous… ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead… ”

- Stephen King

“ In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. ”

- Albert Camus

“ Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living beings in that enormous immensity. ”

- Wernher Von Braun
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