We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.
People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.
The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.
France was always a little scary to me. I had the preconception that France was a bit hoity-toity.
I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
I hope I helped change people's preconceptions about 'Page 3' girls by appearing on Newsnight and at the Oxford Union debate.
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.
I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.
Do not limit yourself to your own preconceptions of yourself, but throw yourself out onto a blank page that you haven't written on yet, and see what you find out about you, see what story unfolds, see what happens! I always do this, and sometimes it ...
All I want is for people to listen to it with unbiased ears, and decide for themselves. I just don't want them to be dictated to by the media, or have preconceptions about it. If you like it, great. If you don't, fair enough.
The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.
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.
It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.
To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.
I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.
I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.
The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.
