Top 785 Preconceived Notions Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.

People have this preconceived notion of me. I'm 'Gob' to them: this thoughtless sociopath who lives this bizarre, ego-driven life. That would be insanity.

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie.

People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

While we're in the dream, these are useful notions.

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.

Personally, I don't tend to go into casting sessions. I try not to have a preconceived notion in my head because it just reduces my options or ability to find someone cool.

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

Nothing breaks down barriers and preconceived ideas about 'Christians and Christianity' more than when we treat people the way Jesus treated His enemies.

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today, I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.

I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.

When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.

You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor.

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.

There's a lot of preconceived ideas of what disability is, what a disabled person should be like, and I try to throw that in your face.

That preconceived notion of me being inaccurate is completely false, and I look forward to changing that over time.

Taoism taught me to focus on the process and not to be attached to preconceived ideas of what I thought the outcome should be.

I never had a preconceived notion about what I should do or what I should take up... I am not that intelligent.

Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

When you can analyze situations and figure out what's best for you, based on you and not some preconceived notion of what society expects, then nothing is a threat.

It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you'll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind.

Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas.

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.

Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy.

They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Economic and technical imperatives - not any preconceived directives - will keep propelling the process of energy transition.

I don't have any romantic notions about villages.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.

For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing.

Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.

Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones of the Hotentots that inhabit there: And had the Virginia King Apochancana, been educated in England, he had, perhaps been as knowing a Divine, and as good a Mathematician as any in it. The difference between him, and a more improved English-man, lying barely in this, That the exercise of his Facilities was bounded within the Ways, Modes, and Notions of his own Country, and never directed to any other or farther Enquiries.

To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

General notions are generally wrong.

I always try to buy just what I need. You get ideas as to what's in season and what's best. I think if you have a preconceived idea before shopping, that makes it difficult. You have to have an open mind.