Quotes of: Preconceived-notion Keyword

The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

Howard Fineman

I detach myself from preconceived outcomes and trust that all is well. Being myself allows the wholeness of my unique magnificience to draw me in those directions most beneficial to me and to all others. This is really the only thing I have to do. An...

Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing

Nevertheless, should you have any doubts that we are stating sound doctrines, look up the references and see exactly what the Bible says and believe it in preference to any man. You cannot go wrong with this kind of advice. But in doing this, be sure...

God's Plan for Man

Our brain is a circuit board with neurons and terminals ready to be wired. We are born free, then programmed to obey our parents, to tell the truth, pass exams, pursue and achieve, love and propagate, age and fade unfulfilled and uncertain what it ha...

Girl Trade

Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

Discipline: The Glad Surrender

Indeed, of the major religions, Islam offers no discernible sliver of valid notion for How Life Works.

Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?

The God Delusion

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

Golem in the Gears

Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the age of gods fell away before the notion of a single god, and then, for many people, that single god slipped away, ...

Kate Bernheimer

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

All the Pretty Horses

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.

Armageddon in Retrospect

Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth

The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Northanger Abbey

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was non ov those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Let the Great World Spin

There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.

The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1

He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty.

Patches Of Grey

It is as though they simply cannot contemplate the notion of a short, slight man who dresses and moves like a popular (mis)conception of a homosexual being attractive to millions of women.

Prince: A Pop Life

Yet the same thing happens to the notions of morality. They are devised, at the start, as measures of expediency, and then given divine sanction in order to lend them authority.

The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It's the ultimate self-delusion.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road