1 With nonfiction, I go in trying to be really honest about what my preconceptions are. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Saunders, Honesty, Nonfiction, Preconceptions, 0 George Saunders Copy
2 Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. Read explanation Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Wayne Dyer, Perception, Positivity, Preconceptions, 0 Wayne Dyer Author · USA Copy
3 It’s important to discuss ideas but it’s more important to surrender control and preconceptions. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Judith Schaechter, Discussion, Preconceptions, Surrender, 0 Judith Schaechter Copy
4 Asking someone in advance not judge you, is like asking someone in advance not to smell you. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Adam Carolla, Acceptance, Judgment, Preconceptions, 0 Adam Carolla Comedian · USA Copy
5 Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Vera Rubin, Observation, Preconceptions, Progress, 0 Vera Rubin Astronomer · USA Copy
6 You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you’re really interested in it. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Cecil Taylor, Interest, Preconceptions, Surrender, 0 Cecil Taylor Jazz Pianist · USA Copy
7 Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions. Author, December 24, 2023January 1, 2025, Carl von Clausewitz, Limitations, Preconceptions, War, 0 Carl von Clausewitz Military Historian · Prussia Copy
8 There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven’t met Oscar Wilde yet. Read explanation Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Oscar Wilde, Identity, Preconceptions, Sexuality, 0 Oscar Wilde Playwright · Ireland Copy
9 We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Taiichi Ohno, Destruction, Failure, Preconceptions, 0 Taiichi Ohno Engineer · Japan Copy
10 People are like that, judging you before they know you. Author, November 3, 2023January 2, 2025, Rachel Cohn, Judgment, Perception, Preconceptions, 0 Rachel Cohn Author · USA Copy
The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him. Joe McGinniss Author
The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing. Ian Tattersall Paleoanthropologist
