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“To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake, for it eliminates that person's freedom to create his or her own opinion and drastically affects the emerging picture of the relationship.”

Knows Wells Persons Enough Understanding Mistake Opinion Perspective Behavior Assuming Tragic Gross Emerging

Author:Meredith L. Young-Sowers

“Public opinion: May it always perform one of its appropriate offices, by teaching the public functionaries of the State and of the Federal Government, that neither shall assume the exercise of powers entrusted by the Constitution to the other.”

May States Government Opinion Teaching Exercise Office Constitution Assuming Presidential Appropriate Federal Government Public Opinion

Author:James K. Polk

“The older your teenagers are, the more they will have their own ideas and opinions. If you take them seriously, rather than assuming your ideas are always best and the only ones, you will begin to grow a relationship that will extend beyond the hormone-group years.”

Ifs Years Ideas Grows Opinion Groups Assuming Teenager Hormones

Book:Have a New Teenager by Friday: How to Establish Boundaries, Gain Respect & Turn Problem Behaviors Around in 5 Days

Source: Have a New Teenager by Friday: How to Establish Boundaries, Gain Respect & Turn Problem Behaviors Around in 5 Days

“If you find my aggressive and dominating play dirty, then that's your opinion. But I would assume most people want someone who is going to do anything and everything within the lines to win for their team, because I know I would.”

People Ifs Knows Want Play Winning Lines Opinion Team Assuming Dirty Aggressive Dominating Anything And Everything

Author:Ndamukong Suh

“It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.”

Soul Certain Turns Simple Opinion Expression Development Habit Shapes Assuming Affection Impression Features Habitual Countenance Physiognomy

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.”

Has Beens Said Form Growth Quality Opinion Worst Assuming Arrogance Consideration Politeness Dogmatism

Book:Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance

Source: Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance

“To get a person's real opinion, ask what she thinks everyone else believes... If people truly hold a particular belief, they are more likely to think that others agree or have had similar experiences. [People] tend to assume that other people have had life histories at least somewhat similar to their own. When we talk about other people, we are often talking about ourselves, whether we know it ourselves.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Persons Real Asks Belief Talking Opinion Particular Agree Assuming

Author:Tyler Cowen

“Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call us small w writers-get considerably more feedback than Writers. The letters I personally find most flattering are not the very rare ones that speak well of my editorials, but the occasional reader who wants to know who writes them. I always happily assume the letter-writers is implying that the editorials are so good that I couldn't have written them myself.”

Knows Want Writing Wells Real Bigs Might Speak Opinion Written Reader Letters Assuming Response Rewards Fats Print Feedback Occasional Commentators Flattering Editorials Implying

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.”

Body Reading Opinion Criticism Assuming Criticize Assertion

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay