Quotes About Preconception

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

New points of view are not, as a rule, discovered in territory that is already known, but in out-of-the way places that may even be avoided because of their bad name. Carl Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausual Connecting Principle

They thought he was only what they could see. A nice boy but a bit of a goof, a bit of a show-off. Not the brightest star in the universe; not a numbers person, but you couldn't have everything you wanted and at least he wasn't a total washout.

He has tried imagining her as a prostitute—he often plays this private mental game with various women he encounters—but he can't picture any man actually paying for her services. It would be like paying to be run over by a wagon, and would be, like that experience, a distinct threat to the health.

When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning.

So who was she? (Vane) Why do you assume it was a female? (Fang) Didn't know you were fond of men. I'll file that under my special Fang folder. (Vane)

I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.

If we met today and you had no idea who I was, you'd just think I was a normal guy. You wouldn't think I'm a rapper.

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

I thought Bentleys were supposed to be grandma cars.

Facing issues of this magnitude, it's unreasonable to think that anyone comes to the investigation with no personal hopes or preexisting beliefs. However

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them.

It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.

It's weird to hear this again - to hear how I was perceived by people before they got to know me. Some of the girls thought I was a bitch - aloof, distant - but now they see the truth.

Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?

When asked what he did for a living, Dave would answer, "I work for local government," because if he said he was a cop, the mood instantly stiffened.

What happens if you walk into a church and try to find out what a man looks like?

The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.

There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.

The à priori presumption is in favour of freedom and impartiality.