Top 135 Preconceptions Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.
I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.
I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.
I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.
More than anyone, I am aware of the preconceptions. I was a Spice Girl. I'm married to a footballer.
SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.
If you want to make the most of travel to Russia, it is better to leave tight plans and preconceptions behind and just enjoy the journey.
You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about.
I had some prejudices and preconceptions about American culture and trash culture, but the artisan food there is not all hot dog stands.
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?
What's brilliant is having the opportunity to come to a piece of work with no preconceptions.
Comedy is a terrible way to meet women. It's certainly a way to start talking to them, but they always have preconceptions about you.
Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a street photographer and a wanderer, without preconceptions. I try to leave it extremely intuitive and exploratory.
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 are not taking its measure.
I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation.
I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I want the first impression to be the music.
I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.
I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.
You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.
It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.
Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is.
The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.
With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are.
I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions.
Once you embark on a road of imagination and creating, all bets are off. All preconceptions about what you must do, make, think, assume, and believe are yesterday’s news.
We all have preconceptions of people based on what we have been told about them and their race and ethnicity.
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
It's the results that are surprising, even results where we've totally screwed up, and then learned something in the process, are the ones that stand out. Having our preconceptions overturned is actually thrilling for us.
People have so many preconceptions about me. I always knew it was going to be an uphill battle.
In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.
I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
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 have no preconceptions.
Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.
If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.
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.
It's important to discuss ideas but it's more important to surrender control and preconceptions.
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.
Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.
When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.
I, like many people, had some sort of preconception about Madonna. One of the preconceptions was that she had the extraordinary work ethic, which turned out to be absolutely true.
My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.
People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.
When we go to the cinema, we bring all of our preconceptions of actors with us.
All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.
Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.
I don't want preconceptions. I want to learn as much as possible.
In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.
I think that when you are famous, it can work against you, people have preconceptions about your image.
Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.
For a long time when I was first starting out, I didn't have an agent, I hadn't really gone to many auditions... I was very unaware of how the industry worked so I didn't have the preconceptions or worries.
Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully.
I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful.
All I want is for people to listen to it with unbiased ears, and decide for themselves. I just don't want them to be dictated to by the media, or have preconceptions about it. If you like it, great. If you don't, fair enough.
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.
Changing people's preconceptions is something you have to do in order to search for truth. Of course normally, that's not done because it also challenges social stability, and stories, as a result, are often told much more simply.
An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.
The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science - or any honest intellectual inquiry.
