Quotes About Preconceptions

When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap.

It just makes me laugh, when you talk to people who are 'typical' men, masculine, they watch sports and they can armchair quarterback, but they don't do anything themselves and they judge your masculinity.

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

The old racism of imperialism not only rendered the postwar political elite unable to see black people as full British citizens, it provided them with a whole glossary of stereotypes and preconceptions that they then deployed in order to justify their aim of introducing immigration controls.

People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is.

When we met Susan Boyle she was a very unassuming lady. We didn't expect anything and we were probably a little dismissive of her.

I've met some of the most beautiful women in the world, and I can tell you lots of them are the most unattractive people I've ever met.

All I want is for people to listen to it with unbiased ears, and decide for themselves. I just don't want them to be dictated to by the media, or have preconceptions about it. If you like it, great. If you don't, fair enough.

What we are looking for, I am afraid, is neither a true leader nor a true Messiah, but a false Messiah - a man who will give us over-simplified answers, who will justify our ways, who will castigate our enemies, who will vindicate our selfishness as a way of life and make us comfortable within our prejudices and preconceptions.

The things we buy and the brands we use are just another way for us to project our preconceptions onto one another.

I did one pudding match, but that was one or two times out of a span of 6 years or 7 years, and everybody wants to think that those 7 years were nothing but bra and panties matches when they weren't.

People get up and say, 'I didn't prepare a speech because I didn't think I would win.' Well, that's dumb.

A straightforward way of defining metaphysics is as the set of assumptions and practices present in the scientist's mind before he or she begins to do science.

Now, you watch cable news, and you know what everybody's going to say before they open their mouth.

If you knew me before Myspace, you'd probably thought I'd have been a scholar teaching philosophy in a university my whole life. If you met me before college, you'd probably have thought I'd be a musician for my entire life.

If you have bad hair and you bite your nails, nobody expects that you can't direct plays.

I am not naive or stupid enough to imagine that people are just going to look at my face and vote for me.

Funny how we get so adjusted to exactly what we should see on every human body we encounter.

Children want to be strong, secure, and happy. Their fantasies will tell us what they feel they need to attain that, if we pay attention. But we need to look beyond our adult expectations and interpretations and see them through our children's eyes. First, we need to begin disentangling the fears and preconceptions that have prevented us from doing so.

Part of the trouble is modern. Since the rescuing of the texts by the great philologists of the Nineteenth Century, one school after another has tried to inject its preconceptions into their meaning, according to the way in which they read the history of philosophical ideas. Part is ancient. And it begins very early. Plato, Aristotle, Eudemus, Theophrastus, Proclus, Simplicius are clearly at odds about what Parmenides may really have meant.

The researcher should try to rid himself of the predominance of emotions, prejudices and preconceptions. This is a demanding requirement... No man can free himself completely of emotions, prejudices, and preconceptions. Yet, an honest researcher could still try his best before an objective and fair assessment of any issue can be reached.

I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

The conclusion you first draw about someone is often informed merely by what you're bringing to it, and it will lead you to underestimating the full depth of the people you have so judged.