#conceptions

Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#misconceptions #status-quo #intelligence

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

Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#around #attached #because #beginning #character

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

One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#around #big #go #gym #heels

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#average #average man #conceptions #conditions #desire

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#cannot #corrected #delusions #intellectual #may

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

— Cecil Taylor

#interested #music #must #preconceptions #really

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder. ↗

— David Moranis

#also #believe #bold #chaotic #connections