Misconception Quotes - Page 4

• The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new world with those who are by birth and nature new. So far as politics is concerned, this involves of course a serious misconception: instead of joining with one's equals in assuming the effort of persuasion and running the risk of failure, there is dictatorial intervention, based upon the absolute superiority of the adult, and the attempt to produce the new as a fait accompli, that is, as though the new already existed.

  Hannah Arendt

  Running, Political, Effort

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought”, Viking Adult

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• I don't necessarily agree with everything I read about my films, but I wouldn't highlight a specific misconception: If people think this or that about myself or my work, they must have their reasons.

  Anne Fontaine

  Thinking, People, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Our misconception is in imagining that our suffering or how intensely or how long we grieve is a measure of how much we loved. In truth, none of us would want another's grief as a testimonial of their love for us. More likely we would want our loved ones to live healthy, fulfilled lives without us.

  Judy Tatelbaum

  Grief, Grieving, Long

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• There can be no religious discourse which is in conflict with its environment and with the world and therefore, we Muslims need to modify this religious discourse. And this has nothing to do with conviction and with religious beliefs, because those are immutable. But we need a new discourse that will be adapted to a new world and which will remove some of the misconceptions.

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

  Religious, Needs, World

  "Egyptian President Sisi: Muslims Need To Reform Their Religious Discourse" by Kathleen Miles, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015.

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• When you look at Steven Meisel's pictures and you see girls rolling around in mud or cars are blowing up? It takes a tremendous amount of courage to be able to do that. I think you have to be malleable, and that's what makes a truly great model. It's not the perfect lip or the perfect face, it's your own ability to take on a character and that's, I think, something there's a misconception about.

  Michael Flutie

  Girl, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Dogbert gazing at night sky No matter how bad the day is, the stars are always there. Dilbert Actually, many of them burned out years ago, but their light is just now reaching earth. DogbertThank you for shattering my comfortable misconception. DilbertIt's the miracle of science.

  Scott Adams

  Stars, Science, Night

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• Most people are just fat and because most bodybuilders juice, they can get away with eating what they want and just monitoring calories. It's a horrible misconception and often sends people down a path of fat gain that might ruin their motivation and drive. Fat cells never go away once created.

  Scott Herman

  Motivation, Cells, People

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• As my films are born at the moment when they are reflected into another person's mind and memories, there are no misconceptions. I totally accept that different people have seen a different film.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Memories, People, Mind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think there's a misconception of my wanting to do dark stuff.

  Susanne Bier

  Dark, Thinking, Stuff

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In our society, as women filmmakers, we are expected to make films that empower women and that raise awareness about women's issues. That is a huge misconception.

  Esra Saydam

  Issues, Empowering, Our Society

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience's misconceptions.

  Josephine Decker

  Space, Film, Boring

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Definitely the biggest misconception is that it is overly burdensome to be a woman and pursue this line of work. But being a woman gives me a unique perspective and style, which is probably why I get the work that I do.

  Reed Morano

  Unique, Giving, Perspective

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding is based on folk psychology, the grasp of human nature by common sense ¾ defined (by Einstein) as everything learned to the age of 18 ¾ shot through with misconceptions, and only slightly advanced over ideas employed by the Greek philosophers

  E. O. Wilson

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Independent, Intelligent, Extroverts

  "Caring for Your Introvert". www.theatlantic.com. March, 2003.

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• I've only made short films and two features, which are very different. One is a surreal comedy, and the other is a period tragedy. I'm curious to know what misconceptions this could trigger

  Sophie Barthes

  Two, Tragedy, Different

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study is dangerous. Perhaps we shall find out that we were not what we took ourselves to be. But if the historical development of science has indeed sometimes pricked our vanity, it has not plunged us into an abyss of immorality. Arguably, it has liberated us from misconceptions, and thereby aided us in our moral progress.

  Philip Kitcher

  Vanity, Anxiety, Historical

  Philip Kitcher (1982). “Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism”, p.202, MIT Press

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• I don't know if it's a misconception, but I often get asked why I always make stories about family and love. Over the years, I´ve also directed commercials, a children's film, and TV - dramas (both comedic and darker), because I always feel the urge to go in a different direction with my next project.

  Anne Sewitsky

  Children, Drama, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The biggest misconception is that I only write about shitty people. Or that I'm trying to be shocking. I just think people are super weird, so I like to write characters that get addicted to things, lose their minds, hurt others, put themselves in bad situations. I'm just more interested in that.

  Leslye Headland

  Hurt, Character, Writing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The biggest misconception may be about my birth country, Lithuania, due to the lack of knowledge about it, but also probably because some strong lobbies work against European construction. There is a huge difference between what I hear from the French media, for example, and what I know about this country and its people.

  Alante Kavaite

  Country, Strong, Media

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think the biggest misconception about experimental film in general is that it is always difficult and inaccessible.

  Jenni Olson

  Thinking, Film, Difficult

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The biggest misconception about me and my work is that I only make political films denouncing human-rights atrocities, even though all of my films are about people fighting for their rights and their quest for justice. My films aren't depressing, are very human, and always offer a way forward.

  Pamela Yates

  Depressing, Fighting, Rights

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The biggest misconception is that I'm only a documentary filmmaker, but in fact I have made many narrative shorts. My biggest inspirations are narrative films, and that's ultimately where I see myself going next.

  Alex Hammond

  Inspiration, Narrative, Next

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In my opinion, the greatest misconception about the market is the idea that if you buy and hold stocks for long periods of time, you'll always make money. Let me give you some specific examples. Anyone who bought the stock market at any time between the 1896 low and the 1932 low would have lost money. In other words, there's a 36 year period in which a buy-and-hold strategy would have lost money. As a more modern example, anyone who bought the market at any time between the 1962 low and the 1974 low would have lost money.

  Victor Sperandeo

  Ideas, Years, Long

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• Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

  David Lloyd George

  Men, House, Prejudice

  1927 Speech, Cambridge.

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• A lot of people have many misconceptions about religion. I know what I'm talking about for myself. My mind is very ordered, so to speak. I need to put things in order.

  Dion DiMucci

  Order, Talking, People

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