Preconceptions Quotes

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it. - Cecil Taylor

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure. - Art Spiegelman

What the insurgency is about is not a mystery. It's not a puzzle. They're not hiding it. They're broadcasting it. Let's try to understand it politically, rather than simply have [our] own preconceptions and dismiss it as propaganda. - Rob Malley

What I tried to do, as best I could, was keep a kind of balancing act in motion... I have my prejudices and politics and so-forth, but if I was going to err, I wanted to err in favor of the Christian conservatives, since it's not the world that I come from. Keeping this balancing act was essential for me, since the point is that the film is not trying to convert one... but rather for the audience to have to examine some of their own preconceptions about whichever position one is taking. - Todd Solondz

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

We do not have any preconceptions that could be seen as attempts to deprive some Russian company of the possibility of exploiting oilfields in Iraq. - Hoshyar Zebari

We are so defined by our prejudices and our preconceptions... that it's sometimes shocking to realise to what extent we are so conditioned. - Todd Solondz

To revise some of their preconceptions regarding language acquisition by children, language competence in adults and second-language instruction. - Shimon Edelman

This is a full review without preconceptions. We are going to give this transaction a very robust examination. - Stewart Baker

The film is driven by coincidence and preconception, ... Each character, whether they be rich, poor, black, white, Mexican or Iraqi, suffers these preconceptions about the other as a manifestation of personal frustration. You see the characters' motivation and see that behind the belligerent cop is a man in pain, behind the frustrated housewife is a woman who feels let down. Racism is just one part of the much bigger puzzle that the film offers. - Thandie Newton