quotes about Preconceptions
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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 SpiegelmanSource : "Art Spiegelman: The Sky Is Falling". Interview with Steven Heller, www.aiga.org. October 01, 2004.
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You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.
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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 LangeSource : 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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SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.
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We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.
-- Taiichi OhnoSource : Taiichi Ohno (2012). “Taiichi Ohnos Workplace Management : Special 100th Birthday Edition: Special 100th Birthday Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional
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She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions.
-- Chantal AkermanSource : 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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“When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.”
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Source : John Vaillant (2015). “The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed”, p.25, Random House
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Source : "World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder" by David Lazarus, articles.latimes.com. August 30, 2012.
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“Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.”
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“I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.”