Preconceptions Quotes

Preconceptions Quote of the day

We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

Once you embark on a road of imagination and creating, all bets are off. All preconceptions about what you must do, make, think, assume, and believe are yesterday’s news.

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.

The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.

I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful.

In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.

Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.

I, like many people, had some sort of preconception about Madonna. One of the preconceptions was that she had the extraordinary work ethic, which turned out to be absolutely true.

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

More than anyone, I am aware of the preconceptions. I was a Spice Girl. I'm married to a footballer.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.

Even sometimes our preconceptions of what we think we need is different to actually what we do need, so we've got to be more open and give guys more of a chance.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation.

She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions.

With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.

You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

I think that when you are famous, it can work against you, people have preconceptions about your image.

It's important to discuss ideas but it's more important to surrender control and preconceptions.

Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully.

Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.

People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist more fiercely within themselves.

[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.

There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.