Preconceptions Quotes

• To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Mean, Photographer

  Dorothea Lange, Paul Schuster Taylor, Howard M. Levin, Katherine Northrup (1980). “Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress”, Text-Fiche Pr

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• If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

  Michael Hansmeyer

  Motivational, Inspiration, Design

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• Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

  Vera Rubin

  Science, Engineering, Progress

  "In Quest of the Universe". Book by Karl F. Kuhn, 2007.

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• I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions.

  Sylvia Plath

  Silver

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.333, Faber & Faber

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• 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.

  Ricardo Semler

  People, Making Changes, Should

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• People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

  Lesley Nicol

  People, Age, Certain

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• I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Looks, Photographer

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  I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

  Gerry Spence

  Life, Faith, Religious

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Reality, Lasts, Last Words

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• The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.

  Gloria Steinem

  Change, Learning, Mean

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• It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organising them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Humanity, Care

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• People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

  Gordon Allport

  Justice, Diversity, People

  Gordon Willard Allport (1958). “The Nature of Prejudice”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.

  Robert F. Goheen

  Learning, Ideas, Mind

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• Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Mean, Keys, Expectations

  "Sing Your Prayers: An Interview With Bobby McFerrin". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions.

  Chantal Akerman

  Vision

  Chantal Akerman, Catherine David, Michael Tarantino, Walker Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1995). “Bordering on fiction: Chantal Akerman's D'Est”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I might choose for them. My love is fluid, flexible, committed, creative. My love allows people and events to unfold as they need. My love is not controlling. It does not dictate or demand. My love allows those I love the freedom to assume the forms most true to them. I release all those I love from my preconceptions of their path. I allow them the dignity of self-definition while I offer them a constant love that is every variable in shape.

  Julia Cameron

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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• Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

  Petronius

  People, Morality, Opinion

  Gaius Petronius Arbiter (1962). “The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter”

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• There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold...Surely Texas is such a place.

  John Steinbeck

  Texas, Confusion, Prejudice

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• The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

  Vincent Cassel

  Art, Ideas, Challenges

  "It shows us the animal inside us" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2003.

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• Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Government, Long, Childhood

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• I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.

  Eva Hesse

  Mean, Self, Want

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• Once you embark on a road of imagination and creating, all bets are off. All preconceptions about what you must do, make, think, assume, and believe are yesterday’s news.

  Jon Rappoport

  Believe, Thinking, Yesterday

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• I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful.

  Sylvia Plath

  Truthful, Dislike

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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• Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as we notice, more and more often, how much of our perceptions emerge from our preconceptions.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Perception, Brain

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• He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.

  Maria Montessori

  Mean, Psychology, Wish

  Maria Montessori (2012). “The Montessori Method”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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