Benefit Of The Doubt

you give everyone the

you give everyone the benefit of the doubt. they don’t always deserve it. Ellen Wittlinger

I’m a reasonable kind of guy. If I hear something that seems to make sense, I’m willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. If the alternative explanation has to be pounded into shape before it fits the mould of our experience, it seems to me that it’s unlikely to be true. Frank Schatzing

You telling me it’s

You telling me it’s only been a couple other people that you’ve been with Imma trust you Imma give you the benefit of the doubt and Imma love you You can even call me daddy, give you someone to look up to Drake

I look at Woody

I look at Woody Allen’s prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I’m watching the clock. I’d love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don’t get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We’re presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just … Read more

I think audiences deserve

I think audiences deserve the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to be surprised by them rather then just assume they’ll react negatively to any new idea. David O. Russell

I will be merciful,

I will be merciful, and I will believe in people. If I am to err, I will err on the side of mercy. I will give people the benefit of the doubt. I will bend, but not break, in order to give people the opportunity to grow and develop. David K. Bernard

My colleague Ross Douthat

My colleague Ross Douthat wrote that any time you give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, he always lets you down. David Brooks

Reputation is a very

Reputation is a very interesting thing, and I always give people the benefit of the doubt, and I think that there’s a part of all of us, especially in a generation where a lot of the stuff gets recorded. Damon Lindelof

I gave people the

I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking, so many people that appear very calm and even boring must have all these wild emotions and crazy ideas. Curtis Sittenfeld

I remember classes in

I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned a long time ago to give people the benefit of the doubt, not to assume that somebody was reacting to you because of race. Condoleezza Rice