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The fixed-mindset premise that great geniuses do not need great teams. They just need little helpers to carry out their brilliant ideas.
— Carol S. Dweck
For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
— Leo Tolstoy
It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure.
— Victor Levin
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
— Erich Fromm
Hoax needed to complete the premises of truth.
— Toba Beta
We can sometimes waste years of our lives waiting to be chosen. But that is a false premise. You are already chosen!
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don't exist simply because I am outnumbered.
— R. Lee Wrights
Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise.
— Chris Van Allsburg
General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.
— Robert Brustein
Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.
— Dorianne Laux
The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.
— Daniel Goleman
National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.
— George F. Will
I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
— Adam DeVine
Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.
— Chester Himes
The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.
— Marianne Williamson
Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
— Walter Lang
I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social.
— Peter Kinderman
Existence is the premise for everything else.
— Liu Cixin
I question the premise that digital is necessarily the enemy of traditional media. In many ways, it presents us with enormous opportunities.
— Scott McDonald
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
— Haruki Murakami
The media's job is to question a premise.
— Joey Skaggs
Diabetic Diet. The premise of this book is to enable the reader to choose healthy foods by following a healthier more nutritious diet plan.
— Speedy Publishing
It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.
— Alice Duer Miller
The premise is prejudicial and proves that what's wanted here isn't a trial but a conviction.
— Gregory Maguire
Start with a premise and then somehow invert it.
— William Wegman
America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.
— Michael Bloomberg
I decided to irritate him, on the premise that it couldn't make my situation any worse.
— Jeff Somers
You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.
— Guy Kawasaki
The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.
— Ronald Reagan
The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.
— Jean Houston
My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.
— Thomas Piketty
The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. ... The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.
— Daniel Quinn
Counterfactual conditionals are always true, because the premise is false. But I was there that day, so now I am where I am.
— Umberto Eco
...But it's a faulty premise, built on the notion that you can choose where your mind goes. Or where your heart goes.
— Andrea Cremer
Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
— George Soros
I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.
— Evan Williams
It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.
— John Rhys-Davies
The good thing about being on a show like 'Justified' is that you stick to the premise, but not necessarily every single word that's on the page.
— Mykelti Williamson
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.
— Mark Epstein
It is not in the premise that realityIs a solid. It may be a shade that traverses
A dust, a force that traverses a shade. — Wallace Stevens
The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.
— Daniel Kahneman
Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.
— John W. Campbell
Would you consider a relationship with me, based on a premise of love?
— Kawakami Hiromi
The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The premise is: everybody's like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don't think like me don't matter. — Ursula K. Le Guin
I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.
— Isaac Marion
A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.
— John F. Kerry
one of the things they desired most desperately was freedom of religion, based on the premise that Europe wasn't religious enough
— Chuck Klosterman
My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply emotional.
— Tess Gerritsen
I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.
— Joe Cornish
What we recognize as Life is actually a premise that enforces the belief of the separateness from God.
— Sufian Chaudhary
There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call truth.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
— Melinda Gates
Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management.
— Eraldo Banovac
I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.
— Ivan Reitman
The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
— Jonah Goldberg
Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. Not "if only." Not "as long as." I matter equally. Full stop.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.
— Derrick Jensen
I'm very flattered to be called a style icon! But it's simple, my style; it's just men's suits and shoes. That's the basic premise.
— Charlotte Rampling
All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.
— H.P. Lovecraft
THE PREMISE OF THIS BOOK CAME TO ME CIRCA 2006,
— Neal Stephenson