Quotes About Preconception

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

People automatically think that because you attack, you can't defend. Not true.

I'm not much of a numbers guy, and yet that's the way I'm defined a lot.

Speaking can be a lot like exercise: The more time you spend getting ready, the more you mentally build the task into something larger than it actually is.

I thought it was crazy for people to eat dirt until I actually tasted it. I really liked it!

Hard to believe, I'm sure, but I am not a tattoo guy. Never had one and never will.

And," Mae added, voice prim, "if you try to brag about this, no one's going to believe you. No one will believe someone like me would sleep with someone like you." That was the gut punch. It was also the last word, because he couldn't muster another response.

How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world. You can step down from a throne, and even if you behave like a farmer in a pigsty, some part in each of them will remember that you did descend from a throne. But if they see only a young man first, a country man, they will resent him stepping up to his throne later, whatever his right, whatever his power.

How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world.

I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

It's annoying and disappointing that people think I just keep clubs up.

I have people tell me all the time, 'I was expecting you to be mean.' Why is that? Because you saw me in a movie? That's acting.

I don't care about technique. I have kind of been pigeonholed as a technical drummer since I was in Dream Theater for all those years, but it's actually very far from the truth.

Almost every person that I had a preconception of, I was wrong. With Edward Teller, I was right. He was an autocrat and a technocrat, with no feeling for humanity.

Hay títulos que uno ha evitado durante años y años, viéndolos reaparecer cada tanto. Llega un día en que, sin una razón aparente, nos aventuramos a comprar el libro. Finalmente uno lo abre y descubre que es del todo distinto de lo que habíamos pensado. O bien se constata que es como si ya lo hubiéramos leído -y entonces las razones para evitarlo eran incuestionablemente sólidas.

We are inclined, that is, to see movie stars as more talented than aspiring movie stars and to think that the richest people in the world must also be the smartest.

moviegoers will report liking a movie more when they hear beforehand how good it is. In this example, small chance influences created a snowball effect and made a huge difference in the future of the song. Again, it's the butterfly effect.

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Mais tu n'es pas aussi abruti qu'on le dit, quand même!.. Si, tu l'es?

Tugs was surprised to find that the cake was actually pretty dry and not as good as the cakes her own mother made. It was a revelation. Tugs had assumed that tastier food came out of fancier houses.