Once you embark on a road of imagination and creating, all bets are off. All preconceptions about what you must do, make,… — Jon Rappoport Copy Share Image
I think that when you are famous, it can work against you, people have preconceptions about your image. — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
“We hide behind our assumptions and preconceptions as if they were fortresses - shutting people out. I love to witness the fall… — Karen Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions… — William James Copy Share Image
Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I'm always weary of connotations. I don't want people to listen to the music I make presently because they liked my previous… — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
“If we take the time or courage to find out what people feel and think, and to listen to the heart of… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“...you cannot enter into an investigation with a philosophy that dictates the outcome. Objectivity is paramount; this is the first principle of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All I want is for people to listen to it with unbiased ears, and decide for themselves. I just don't want them… — Melanie Chisholm Copy Share Image
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!'… — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
“[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
When preconception is so clearly defined, so easily reproduced, so enthusiastically welcomed and so long accommodated as in the case of Piltdown… — John Reader Copy Share Image
The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
Travel opens different eyes to different things, shows things we've never seen before, shows the world from entirely different angles. That's the… — Danny Gregory Copy Share Image
We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing,… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
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