When we go to the cinema, we bring all of our preconceptions of actors with us. — Sam Levinson 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
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality. — John Cage Copy Share Image
With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions. — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully. — Judith Schaechter Copy Share Image
The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling. — Robert F. Goheen 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'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
The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually… — George Gaylord Simpson 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
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
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Remember preconceptions? Even though I'd landed hoping simply to somehow scrape the transatlantic fare home, I'd been an arrogant swine, imbued with… — Jonathan Gash 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
It's important to discuss ideas but it's more important to surrender control and preconceptions. — Judith Schaechter 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
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
An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter. — William Jones 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
“Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality...” — Petronius 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
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
