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Quotes About Preconceived

What I learned was that celebrities come to me with a preconceived notion. They think I'm fun, or they've worked with me, or they know me, or we've met. So there's a lot of backstuff on the 'Vicki!' show.
~ Vicki Lawrence
I'm from Cleveland. I don't have any famous parents. I don't have any media training, I don't have a history in the industry to where I would have any preconceived notions of how I'm supposed to be.
~ Machine Gun Kelly
There's a lot of preconceived ideas of what disability is, what a disabled person should be like, and I try to throw that in your face.
~ Josh Blue
Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas.
~ Francis Galton
People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.
~ Laura Prepon
You go into the Lions camp with preconceived ideas about players and teams and then find guys are actually very different, and the beauty of the Lions is that all those characters are moulded into it. I find that exciting.
~ Brian O'Driscoll
And when people interpret the behavior of someone who is a member of a minority, they interpret it in the context of preconceived stereotypes.51
~ Leonard Mlodinow
I have no preconceived notions of what SBA programs work or not.
~ Sam Graves
There's a wide spectrum between a Navy SEAL hero-killer and a traumatized victim, but those are the archetypes - hashed and rehashed in the media, in popular culture, in the minds of people with a lot of preconceived notions but not much else.
~ Phil Klay
I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.
~ Chuck Mangione
'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
~ Larenz Tate
The truth is that the mountains are a place where you can find whatever you want just by looking, as long as you remember that they do not suffer fools gladly and particularly dislike those with preconceived ideas.
~ Louis de Bernieres
I was to discover that like the overcoat that snugly wraps Rizal in all his statues and photographs, Rizal is obscured by countless myths and preconceived ideas... Without his overcoat, Rizal was human, like you and me.
~ Ambeth Ocampo
I've been thought to be a flight attendant many many times.
~ Mellody Hobson
I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.
~ Ricky Jay
These days, as I am older and wiser, I realize that there is a danger in becoming an icon, as people can see you as remote and untouchable, and they are less willing to tolerate you doing things that don't fit with their preconceived idea of you.
~ Giorgio Armani
Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.
~ Leon Trotsky
Preconceived, fixed notions can be more damaging than cannon.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
People have got a preconceived idea of what I look like, what I perform and what my shows are all about. I can understand that, because all they can refer to is 'Top Of The Pops.' But those who come to my shows know better.
~ Shakin' Stevens
With each film, I get more and more involved and it's more and more time-consuming. Also, I like to break myths and people's preconceived ideas. My characters have always stood for something, have always had an opinion, although they've never really rebelled.
~ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
The best moments can't be preconceived. I've spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect, with perfect delivery and facial expression and timing, and you remember all your lines, and it is dead.
~ Brad Pitt
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The media and politicians rarely pay attention to statements by economists, but unfortunately they do if the statements are sufficiently controversial (in the case of the media) or support preconceived views (in the case of politicians).
~ Ben S. Bernanke
I'm just a normal girl. People have these preconceived notions about what movie stars are about and how we've grown up. My mother is pretty regular and raised us just like anyone else.
~ Twinkle Khanna