Quotes About Preconceptions

I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I want the first impression to be the music.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.

I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.

We've played so many places where, if you asked people, 'Do you like jazz?' they would be like, 'Not at all.' But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist.

Comedy is a terrible way to meet women. It's certainly a way to start talking to them, but they always have preconceptions about you.

Of course, it's human nature for people, when they meet me to have some preconceptions about how I look, how I sing, how I behave. I can understand that. And I've realized you can't do anything about human nature except to ignore it.

Prejudices save time.

Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

As filmmakers are nervous while casting, they naturally tend to sign actors depending on what they've seen before.

For whatever the reasons may be, a lot of teams try to target me as a defender from a standpoint of assuming I'm not very great at it.

Not that I like having my direst preconceptions about humanity confirmed or anything. But I was right.

Normally, if we pay attention to people's behavior, we are in a rush to fit their actions into categories and to hurry to conclusions, so we settle for the judgment that suits our own preconceptions. Or we accept their self-serving explanations. The Laws will rid you of this habit by making it clear how easy it is to misread people and how deceptive first impressions can be.

Real science and real philosophy are not guided by preconceptions of what subjects are important to consider. That

In the evening we went to the opera to see 'The Little Minister'. It was good but not nearly so good as the book. I don't care for dramatized novels. They always jar on my preconceptions of the characters.

Humans still have a tendency to think that good is always pretty and that evil is always ugly. I've found that it's so often the other way around.

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

Please let me clear this up once and for all: 'Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get' is a quotation of the highest nonsense. Every box of chocolates comes with a handy and clear pictogram relating the shape of the chocolate to its flavour. Also a box of chocolates is always welcome and delicious. Life is in fact like a bag of Revels. You never know what you're going to get, and half of it you won't like.

They aren't as douchey as people say. They're good people.

In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and avoids information and interpretations that contradict prior beliefs.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!'

'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.