Preconceived Ideas Quotes - Page 2

• I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.

  Xavier Dolan

  School, Ghetto, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.

  Dennis Hopper

  Reading, Ideas, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.

  Dennis Hopper

  Ideas, Live In The Moment, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Preconceived ideas can sometimes become barriers.

  Rocky Bleier

  Ideas, Sometimes, Barriers

  9 Copy quote

• Reality doesn't have any preconceived ideas. You've got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette. You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You've got to do things and not show them.

  James Dean

  Drinking, Reality, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're trying, despite having done research and having obviously preconceived ideas, we try our best to be as open-hearted as possible, and try to create context. So that's always going to be the challenge, making a program like 'Gaycation', and we are always thinking about it, reflecting on it, and doing our best to show the whole picture as much as possible in a 45-minute span. Hopefully that comes across.

  Ellen Page

  Thinking, Ideas, Challenges

  Source: www.macleans.ca

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're often racing against time. You're frequently running everything through your mind. You're always competing against preconceived ideas. It's not really the person next to you that you worry about.

  Summer Sanders

  Running, Race, Ideas

  5 Copy quote

• I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Ideas, Preparation, Directors

  7 Copy quote

• People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

  Laura Prepon

  Ideas, People, Documentaries

  "Q&A: Laura Prepon on Orange Is the New Black, Lesbianism, Tasteful Nudity & Prison". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. July 10, 2013.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Ideas, Would Be, Pay

  4 Copy quote

• I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

  Robert Doisneau

  Ideas, Path, Stammering

  30 Copy quote

• It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of opening, a sense of vision...That is the sort of time we live in now. We...live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our uncertain feet.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Ideas, Feet, People

  8 Copy quote

• I always try to buy just what I need. You get ideas as to what's in season and what's best. I think if you have a preconceived idea before shopping, that makes it difficult. You have to have an open mind.

  Julia Child

  Thinking, Shopping, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When someone has too much of a thought-out idea, that can be a big obstacle to get anywhere. Because it's like [if] you have a preconceived idea of what's going to happen in the studio in an hour's time, then you're not free anymore and you lock yourself into your own expectations. I don't think that's very creative. It doesn't work well with me.

  Pontus Winnberg

  Thinking, Ideas, Expectations

  "An Amason Supergroup". Interview with Mathias Rosenzweig, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 30, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Preconceived ideas are like searchlights which illumine the path of the experimenter and serve him as a guide to interrogate nature. They become a danger only if he transforms them into fixed ideas-this is why I should like to see these profound words inscribed on the threshold of all the temples of science: 'The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.'

  Louis Pasteur

  Believe, Ideas, Profound

  11 Copy quote

• Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results,only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Men, Discovery

  Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Pt I, Ch. 2, Sect. III

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Ideas, People, Labels

  8 Copy quote

• I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

  Ricky Jay

  Ideas, Pieces, Radio

  Interview with Geoff Nicholson, www.sfgate.com. May 21, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.

  Olive Schreiner

  Children, Ideas, People

  Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up- giving up of everything that belongs to you. What really belongs to you? Only the ego. Love consumes in its flames all preconceived ideas, prejudices and judgments, all those things which stem from the ego. Pure love is nothing but the emptying of the mind of all its fears and the tearing off of all masks. It exposes the Self as it is.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Giving Up, Self

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 4”, p.237, M A Center

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is a matter of fact; I approached without a preconceived idea, too ready to declare, if the experiment had imposed upon me the confession, that there was a spontaneous generation, of
  which I am convinced today that those who assure it are blindfolded.

  Louis Pasteur

  Ideas, Generations, Matter

  Address at the "Sorbonne Scientific Soirée", April 07, 1864.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.

  Vernon Howard

  Hurt, Reality, Thinking

  95 Copy quote

• A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.

  Olive Schreiner

  Children, Ideas, Looks

  Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA

  4 Copy quote

  Show source