#conception

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it. ↗

— Cecil Taylor

#interested #music #must #preconceptions #really

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#analogous #career #conception #gained #greatest

I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#believe #general #i #i think #lacks

The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color. ↗

— A. J. McLean

#bad-boy #biggest #changes #color #constant

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make -- bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake -- if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble. Making assumptions simply means believing things are a certain way with little or no evidence that shows you are correct, and you can see at once how this can lead to terrible trouble. For instance, one morning you might wake up and make the assumption that your bed was in the same place that it always was, even though you would have no real evidence that this was so. But when you got out of your bed, you might discover that it had floated out to sea, and now you would be in terrible trouble all because of the incorrect assumption that you'd made. You can see that it is better not to make too many assumptions, particularly in the morning. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#preconceptions #trouble

Imperfection is the doorway for which perfection may step through...perfection must be enforced, it must be soldered into the eyes of the blind, it must be severed methodically and sewn into the very warmth that keeps at bay the cold of the night. Imperfection is the fire that sets alight the dark passage through which perfection wanders...and we must embrace it all, we must have purpose to survive. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#death #dread #forgiveness #goal #greed

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#beliefs #clichés #convictions #dignity #double-standards

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. ↗

— George Santayana

#change #conception #consumption #currency #daily

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#art #conception #everybody #going

It's the same misconception I used to have. I meet people and think they're millionaires and they're not. ↗

— Peter Hook

#meet #millionaires #misconception #people #same