The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.
Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.
The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen.
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.
Beware of economists who hide assumptions.
The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.
Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private enterprise and maximum economic growth.
When someone new walks into a room, the first thing we notice about that person is probably their gender. And the second things is what they're wearing. And based on what they're wearing, we start making certain assumptions about them.
The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of his utterances must be greater than any which his personal reputation and character can command, if it is to do the work assigned to it if it is to stand against the passionate resentments arising out of the interests he must frustrate for while a judge must discover some composition with the dominant trends of his times, he must preserve his authority by cloaking himself in the majesty of an overshadowing past.
Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.
The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.
I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear. . . as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.
The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.
If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin with the assumption of bondage, the preoccupation is always how to set out the word that frees.
The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.
Assumptions are what we don't know we are making
Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.