Preconceived Ideas Quotes

• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

  Howard Aiken

  Life And Love, Business, Congratulations

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

  Jean Cocteau

  Life, Art, Philosophy

  Jean Cocteau (1957). “The Holy Terrors”, p.170, New Directions Publishing

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

  Howard Aiken

  Business, Science, Office Work

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

  Ben Stein

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'

  Sandra Bullock

  Daughter, Thinking, Ideas

  "She's Strong, She's Sexy, She's Sandra Bullock". Interview with Anne Fletcher, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2009.

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• I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

  Marion Milner

  Discovery, Ideas, Achievement

  Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.62, Taylor & Francis

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• People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Ideas, People

  Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing

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• To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.

  Dawna Markova

  Mean, Ideas, Purpose

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, p.44, Conari Press

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• Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to whatever it may be, save to the facts themselves, because, for thought, submission would mean ceasing to be.

  Henri Poincare

  Party, Passion, Mean

  Speech at the University of Brussels during the festival for the 75th anniversary of the university's foundation, November 19, 1909.

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• I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.

  Christopher Parker

  Thinking, Awards, Ideas

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• 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

  Exercise, Science, Men

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• Nothing breaks down barriers and preconceived ideas about 'Christians and Christianity' more than when we treat people the way Jesus treated His enemies.

  Chip Ingram

  Christian, Jesus, Ideas

  Chip Ingram (2013). “True Spirituality: Becoming a Romans 12 Christian”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Ideas

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• Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.

  Charles de Lint

  Ideas, Giving, Advice

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• It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ideas, Missing, Conservative

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• I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.

  Carla Bruni

  Ideas, People, Judging

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• I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Ideas, Trying, Photographer

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• It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question without an idea which invites an answer. I consider it, therefore, an absolute principle that experiments must always be devised in view of a preconceived idea, no matter if the idea be not very clear nor very well defined.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Views, Ideas

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even if we wished to do so, it could not be done. Every man has his own conception of the world, and this he cannot so easily lay aside. We must, example, use language, and our language is necessarily steeped in preconceived ideas. Only they are unconscious preconceived ideas, which are a thousand times the most dangerous of all.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Men, Ideas

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.192, Modern Library

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• I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the ultimate end, the print, is but a duplication of all that I saw and felt through my camera.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Ideas, Glasses

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would assume that the main trend of research should be directed toward an examination of abnormalities of the fat metabolism, since by definition excessive accumulation of fat is the underlying abnormality.

  Hilde Bruch

  Ideas, Done, Research

  "The Importance of Overweight".

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• The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among religions with regard to the facts to be observed and the diverse hypotheses it has laid down for their coordination. Never having been hampered by a priestly order, each man has been entirely free to search wherever he pleased for the spiritual explanation of the spectacle of the universe.

  Romain Rolland

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  "Life of Vivekananda". Book by Romain Rolland, 1944.

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• 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. Iconic status can be like a pair of handcuffs, especially if, like me, you wish to continually stretch yourself creatively, as Warhol did.

  Giorgio Armani

  Ideas, Icons, People

  Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2008.

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• Serving God - what more beautiful thing is there to do! The only real joy is to be a servant of God, and that means being awake all the time to the needs of the moment.... We cannot have any preconceived ideas of what service means. We never know from one moment to the next, what will be asked of us.

  Reshad Feild

  Beautiful, Real, Mean

  Reshad Feild (1996). “The Last Barrier: A Universal Search for Self Discovery”, Element Books Limited

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• The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever.

  B. B. King

  Depressing, Player, Guitar

  Source: blankonblank.org

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