When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image.… — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
More than anyone, I am aware of the preconceptions. I was a Spice Girl. I'm married to a footballer. — Victoria Beckham Copy Share Image
She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions. — Chantal Akerman Copy Share Image
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
“Too often we judge people by our own standards and preconceptions and miss the truth of the thing entirely.” — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Even sometimes our preconceptions of what we think we need is different to actually what we do need, so we've got to… — Rebecca St. James Copy Share Image
I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions.… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward,… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
Losing all the preconceptions that I had about storytelling, about the world, you know, and learning to see the world from a… — Ciro Guerra Copy Share Image
Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject… — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are huge traditions of enormous importance, and they aren't monotheistic. Again, this reflects the fact that our preconceptions… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around… — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Ironically enough, if the case involves race, and one claims that race is a disqualifying factor, nobody could hear the case. Everybody… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
“Author discussed what he calls the "narrative fallacy." This refers to our "limited ability" to look at a sequence of facts "without… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier… — John Newbery Copy Share Image
We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I, like many people, had some sort of preconception about Madonna. One of the preconceptions was that she had the extraordinary work… — James D'arcy Copy Share Image
I hope I helped change people's preconceptions about 'Page 3' girls by appearing on Newsnight and at the Oxford Union debate. — Peta Todd Copy Share Image
“Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
We all have preconceptions of people based on what we have been told about them and their race and ethnicity. — John Barnes Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation. — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
“Exposing others' preconceptions gives a false sense of security, when one remains blind to one's own.” — John R. Lenz Copy Share Image
You do something, like, something like 'Psych' for long enough, it's tough to shake up people's preconceptions of who you are as… — James Roday Copy Share Image
“Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality...” — Petronius Copy Share Image
I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas. — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
