When we go to the cinema, we bring all of our preconceptions of actors with us. — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
It is not wise to judge others based on your own preconceptions and by their appearance. — Alexia Copy Share Image
The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions. — Mike White Copy Share Image
With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality. — John Cage Copy Share Image
People have so many preconceptions about me. I always knew it was going to be an uphill battle. — Chesney Hawkes Copy Share Image
I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit,… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
“As dysfunctional as they may be on occasion, our theories, preconceptions, and “biases” are what make us smart.” — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign… — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
It's important to discuss ideas but it's more important to surrender control and preconceptions. — Judith Schaechter Copy Share Image
Once you free your mind about the concept of harmony and of music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
It's the results that are surprising, even results where we've totally screwed up, and then learned something in the process, are the… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
Changing people's preconceptions is something you have to do in order to search for truth. Of course normally, that's not done because… — Jiang Wen Copy Share Image
[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
A university shouldn't be a place of comfort. It should be a place of discomfort because you want to disabuse these kids… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as… — Henry Holmes Smith Copy Share Image
We need many more intrepid women who set out to expand both their and our concepts of the world. We need them… — Lesley Hazleton Copy Share Image
You look at Japan and Hayao Miyazaki's films are the biggest films ever made in Japan; domestically there and they play to… — Chris Wedge Copy Share Image
Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We might laugh at the notion of plastic tea sets in the jungle, but it is a time-honored ritual for Western travelers… — Eric Hansen Copy Share Image
When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“All of us can get lost in the sea of humanity and just think that we are who and what other people… — Keith Craft Copy Share Image
“ What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions. — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design? — Michael Hansmeyer Copy Share Image