Quotes About Preconception

People seem to think I'm Satan.

People put a lot less effort into picking apart evidence that confirms what they already believe.

Ironically, I've spent years writing sensitive articles for women. Still, one lady wrote: "I have always viewed you with suspicion, knowing that if you were pushed to the limit, if you were forced to make a decision, you weren't really one of us after all. Deep down inside, you are a guy.

If there's one thing more ridiculous than the idea of a policeman who's thinking, it's a policeman saying he expects something important to come of it.

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

We assume people we know can't be serial killers.

We're disinclined to believe that someone who's an attentive student or a congenial athlete could also be a serial rapist.

Si un científico se empecina en explicar eso con razones naturales lo único que demuestra es lo poco razonable que puede llegar a ser. Es decir, demostraría que está usando la razón a su antojo, como un medio para llegar a una verdad que ya ha decidido de antemano.

Warren Buffett puts it all rather well: "What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

People have a perception of you and that's very difficult to change.

Whatever I do, if people see me in a certain light, then they will always judge me in that light. Their impressions and perceptions will never change.

it seems to me as though my wife and I looked at the world through a long lens of preconception, by which we held ourselves at some unbreachable distance from what was around us, a distance that constituted a kind of safety but also created a space for illusion.

Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.

The funny thing is that people see one film like 'Racing Stripes' or 'Ice Princess' and all of a sudden, slip me into this category of 'that's what she's always involved in.'

People probably growing up said U.S. Open wouldn't suit me, because I'm a long hitter, I'm a bomber.

We often decide in advance how we will respond to something rather than wait for the experience to play itself out according to its proper speed.

All useful history is antiseptic in this fashion. It enables us to know what fairy tale, what school book, what tradition, what novel, play, picture, phrase, planted one preconception in this mind, another in that mind.

In some measure, stimuli from the outside, especially when they are printed or spoken words, evoke some part of a system of stereotypes, so that the actual sensation and the preconception occupy consciousness at the same time. The two are blended, much as if we looked at red through blue glasses and saw green.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

Physically, no one would ever consider me for the serial-killer lady.

You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.

People did pigeonhole me.