#assuming

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#anything #assuming #become #believing #disenchanted

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#assuming #capitalism #competition #defenders #does

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all. ↗

— Steve Forbert

#acoustic guitar #assuming #attention #best #foot

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#almost #anything #assuming #available #composite

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it? ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#assuming #before #body #conditions #die

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#automatically #collected #everything #hitman #i

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress. ↗

— Stacey Dash

#assuming #awful #because #came #characters

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#becoming #course #god #how #knows

People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#athlete #because #bit #dance #great

I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier. ↗

— Joe Murray

#assuming #banana #bananas #because #cheese