Preconceptions Quotes

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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person… — Isabel Allende
The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I might choose for… — Julia Cameron
The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites… — William O. Douglas
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of… — Robert Andrews Millikan
To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false. — Dorothea Lange
It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organising them.… — Elliott Erwitt
I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I… — Garry Winogrand
Bare skin is the one and only right criterion for receiving water's gracious acceptance or any acceptance whatsoever from that element. But Pliny also seems… — Janet Lembke
People have preconceptions about women of a certain age. — Lesley Nicol
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you… — Art Spiegelman
At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader… — Arthur Frommer
The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious. — George Gaylord Simpson
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 infer your existence… — Geneen Roth
The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee… — Mary Donnelly-Haskell
We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made… — Walter Lippmann
But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply… — Stephen Jay Gould
Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before… — Dan Millman
Once you free your mind about the concept of harmony and of music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So nobody told me… — Giorgio Moroder
I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which… — Eva Hesse

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