Preconceived Notions Quotes

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

  Ben Stein

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

  Mary Browne

  Motivational, Wise, Wisdom

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• When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

  James Cook

  Missing, Mind, Trying

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• People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.

  Gina Carano

  Fighting, Past, Mma

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• People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie.

  Amanda Bynes

  Movie, Winning, Who I Am

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process.

  Scott Kahn

  Creative, Process, Notion

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• I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.

  Sandra Bullock

  Thinking, Choices, Notion

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

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• Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

  Yahoo Serious

  Journey, Goes On, Fantastic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.

  Kate Bosworth

  Attitude, Stupid, Thinking

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• One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.

  Michael Dell

  Business, Worry, Maintaining

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• I go into meetings, and people have this preconceived notion of me that I didn't work hard to get where I am.

  Lauren Conrad

  Hard Work, People, Notion

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• For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

  Ricki Lake

  Notion, Who You Are

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• All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will may see and know. She conveys her truths only to those who are passive and receptive.

  Luther Burbank

  Mother, Nature, Light

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• Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Humor, Ideas

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.664, Simon and Schuster

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• You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor.

  Rachael Leigh Cook

  Guy, Four, Likes

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• I had a lot of preconceived notions going in the Wall Street. It wasn't an industry that I really respected much. My feeling was kind of like look, you're not making anything. You're taking money from one place, putting it in another and taking your cut and that's just not really kind of soul-satisfying at the end of the day, but what I learned is, on a larger scale is how much the Wall Street industry funnels and fuels so many others. There is a lot of good that these guys do, and to lump all traders into a category is as insane as lumping any group of people into one category.

  John Buffalo Mailer

  Wall, Cutting, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I am good in the fact that most of my reviews have been very positive really. I get pretty good reviews. There have been some that aren't - critical. I think they are extremely - the people that wrote them really don't understand what they are looking at quite frankly or have a very preconceived notion of what conceptual art should be or where I am at or the fact that I may change what I have done from what I did 20 years ago. But there is always some reason that they just sort of get it wrong. And so it certainly doesn't affect my work.

  Robert Barry

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.

  Trevor Noah

  Want, Should, Notion

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.

  Lou Reed

  Challenges, Should, Notion

  "I met Lou Reed - and he was charm personified" by Hanna Hanra, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2013.

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• It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

  Rose McGowan

  People, Together, Shy

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• I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a philosophy that believes you shouldn't have preconceived notions - that you don't need a gimmick. That you should just photograph what you react to - what you see.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Philosophy, Believe

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• Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

  Curtis W. Fentress

  Architecture, Building, Should

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• I'm not really sure what people's preconceived notions are. I don't look at the gossip websites - it's unhealthy and I think it's a large part of what drives people in L.A. crazy.

  Mischa Barton

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

  Brian McKnight

  Thinking, Needs, Radio

  "Musician Brian McKnight Uses 'More Than Words'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 18, 2013.

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