#conceptions

We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according to their own desires are those who have no desires--which is the majority, actually. People can say what they like, they can speak of abnegation, sacrifice, generosity, acceptance, and resignation, but it's all false. The norm is for people to think that they desire whatever comes to them, whatever they achieve along the way or whatever is given to them--they have no preconceived desires. ↗

— Javier Marías

#life #preconceptions #life

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age. ↗

— Lesley Nicol

#age #certain #certain age #people #preconceptions

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 Spiegelman

#apply #author #enough #many #measure

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic. ↗

— Laura Riding

#act #bad #believe #correct #does

Mistakes and regret, desease and death...ain't recognized by mind that capable on changing them into otherwise. ↗

— Toba Beta

#desease #misconceptions #mistakes #regret #change

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience. ↗

— William James

#education #ideas #education

I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#always #any #blow #cos #everyone

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. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#any #come #covered #good #i

I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#cause #did #film #had #hopes

People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!' ↗

— Ray Liotta

#blow #comedy #depp #father #guy