Quotes About Preconception

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.

I bring nothing but love and joy to everything I do when it comes to this music... I just want to see people smile more when they see me instead of reading my name and getting a preconception of what I am.

The way you see me on 'Jersey' is a snapshot, and you can't judge from a snapshot.

Our interpretations reveal less about God or the Bible than they do about ourselves. They reveal what we want to defend, what we want to attack, what we want to ignore, what we're unwilling to question.

That's why they're placed in UFO magazines—because by and large the very act of buying such a magazine so categorizes the reader.

Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad. Then you read one, and you can say, 'This book is amazing.' That's the same with meeting people.

People will always have judgments, but they don't actually know me.

Going for the Rhodes, it really put a label on me that was hard to shake, and frankly I don't think that I did shake it.

Never underestimate a well-dressed bimbo.

But if there's one thing I've learned in life it's this: assume makes an ass out of 'u' and 'me

The second man I meet is Andrew, and he has dirty fingernails so I can't notice if he is nice or not. I can even eat my brown sugar and butter crêpes because, oy gevalt , I'm so distracted by these fingernails. I mean, what was he doing before he came on this date? Competitive gardening? Burying the last woman he dated?

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

She swept away, putting an extra kink into her walk. I would not have thought that a woman with an ass that bony could make it wiggle so much but she proved me wrong.

Kimbo Slice the man, you watch the YouTube videos of this guy in backyards, and they start fighting and you think this guy's a thug. You think he's a bad guy, you have this perception of him and then you meet him, it isn't true. It's the exact opposite. He's a really good guy.

People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important to change people's impressions.

I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.

When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don't even give you a fair hearing.

You should never assume about someone.

When the situation demands action, know the end of the action before you start the action

The trouble is that once people develop an implicit theory, the confirmation bias kicks in and they stop seeing evidence that doesn't fit it.

I don't see the point of Twitter, so I write a lot of stuff to mess with people. But because I used to do dumb things on the court, people think I'm dumb in regular life. But once people meet me, they feel dumb themselves.

Sadly, I don't think books ever sell based on your name alone - the minute we make an assumption like that is the minute it all goes horribly wrong!