An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as… — Anonymous 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
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
If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design? — Michael Hansmeyer 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
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to… — Alan Watts 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
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
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
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
I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not… — Sylvia Plath 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
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
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
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
It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are. — George Saunders 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
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
“[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
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
Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
