Quotes About Preconception

People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.

When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles.

I thought Anurag sir would be strict, and I had certain kind of perception about him, but he was warm and interactive.

When people see me, I might come across as just eye candy.

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.

Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.

Only human beings guide their behaviour by a knowledge of what happened before they were born and a preconception of what may happen after they are dead; thus only humans find their way by a light that illuminates more than the patch of ground they stand on. P. B. and J. S. MEDAWAR, The Life Science (1977)

These writers illustrate the central preconception of the paranoid style—the existence of a vast, insidious, preternaturally effective international conspiratorial network designed to perpetrate acts of the most fiendish character.

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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

Men see what they expect to see.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

Don't judge a book by its movie.

There were a lot of heads turning when people found out I was doing music and when they found out it was country, they were like, 'What?

Confirmation bias is the tendency to see things in your environment that confirm your preconceived ideas and not see things that conflict with what you already believe. I think maybe something like that happens with kids. You see what you want to see.

The simplicity of this case offends me. It's so neat, it's like a preconception. One thing you can be sure about any preconception. It's wrong. If there's a God and he tried to preconceive the world, he got it wrong.

If you do a great job in one thing, people look at you that way and it's hard to break out of that.

I thought LeBron James was just going to be another addition to help me score

People always assume that I'm some sort of party girl, and that's such a misconception because I like staying home.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.