Don’t build roadblocks out of assumptions.
Lorii MyersTags: attitude assumptions win
They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.
Pandora PoikilosTags: assumptions gossip chaos misunderstanding
If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.
Miguel RuizTags: wisdom life assumptions
Lahat ng mga salitang yan may dating sa'yo. Sabi kasi ng isip mo.
Bob OngTags: words mind assumptions impact
The professor argues against measuring effectiveness in the shallow short-term in the "fierce humanities," for teaching that seeks not merely learning, but unlearning, that seeks to unsettle knowledge and assumptions in ways more fundamental than any exam can or should test.
Cary NelsonTags: assumptions examination
The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains.
Henry David ThoreauTags: conformity assumptions
It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at French social theories he had brought away no smell of scorching. We may handle even extreme opinions with impunity while our furniture, our dinner-giving, and preference for armorial bearings in our own ease, link us indissolubly with the established order.
George EliotTags: assumptions materialism
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
George EliotTags: simplicity assumptions
We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.
Muriel BarberyTags: seeing assumptions
Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” [Charlan] Nemeth [a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley] says. “It wakes us right up.
Jonah LehrerTags: dissent creativity understanding assumptions surprise alternative-views invigoration new-perspectives
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