assumed understanding Quotes

What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.

One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

There's been more than one time when I've said something, and sort of the middle of what I've said is not said but thought, and therefore assumed to be understood, which is a ridiculous assumption on my part, but sometimes gets me in trouble.

So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know.

Sometimes you also work with people who don't explain or express to you what they're actually looking for from the shot but you haven't got that problem with this because whatever you're going to do, whether it's good or bad, will get picked up. So, in that way I guess it's pure cinema.

Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.

You think you know me just because you know my name, think you've seen me 'cause you've seen every line on my face.