Sentences with phrase «many preconceived notions»

Based on the preconceived notions we attach to attractiveness, a person might be less inclined to be taken seriously, even when appropriately dressed.

The greatest leaders, the most creative tacticians stand out not because they have more knowledge but because they are able when necessary to drop their preconceived notions and focus intensely on the present moment and all it has to offer.

The challenge for McDonald's is overcoming preconceived notions about its offerings, says Betts.

«We've found that continuously challenging preconceived notions of how to run a company has been the key to our success,» says Datalogix's Roza.

We give the facts that confirm our preconceived notions more intellectual weight in our minds, and we omit the elements that may contradict our beliefs.

«We'll need tenured people with great experience as the company evolves,» he says, «but in these early, innovative days, we need sharp people who really don't have any preconceived notions.»

«Unlike opening a CPA firm, where there's a preconceived notion of what that brand is supposed to look like, it seems like this is a wild - wild - west.

You can not simply exclude three months of price activity because it suits your preconceived notions of a current breakout.

The best way to stay competitive is to actively attempt to challenge your preconceived notions.

The key to getting the most out of the time you spend getting to know your customers at a deeper level is suspending your agenda and any preconceived notions about the way things ought to function.

I think they still have preconceived notions of how women will present themselves.

The creative process relies on letting go of the preconceived notions that we may have towards how a product or process is done.

To eliminate preconceived notions and judgment, you need to see the world through other people's eyes.

So don't limit your job search because of preconceived notions about what people with job flexibility can earn.

When directors with preconceived notions are determined to serve as obstacles to management's plans, it's hard to find a formula for success.

Good listeners also try to abandon their preconceived notions.

TOPOS Design Studio is an award - winning architectural design firm established to shatter preconceived notions of spatial allocations and use.

This past year showed how tightly most of us cling to our preconceived notions, how fiercely we resist evidence that we might be wrong and how adept we are at deluding ourselves into thinking we were right all along.

He can sometimes be brash and over-confiendent, but Nenshi has done a lot over the past seven years to help reshape more than a few preconceived notions about Calgary and Alberta into a more modern, progressive and urban place.

This psychological phenomenon occurs when investors filter out potentially useful facts that don't coincide with their preconceived notions, then suffer as a result.

It's just a shame that we haven't come to the point in society where it should be required that those who make decisions must meet certain, more highly regulated, fool proof, corruption resistant criteria proving their intellect and open mindedness as well as weeding out individuals with preconceived notions, racist, sexist or religiously or other discriminative views (even if they themselves don't believe they are discriminative in their beliefs... this happens more than many people realize) and overall ignorant minds.

The truth is sometimes difficult, especially if you have preconceived notions of a fairy tale.

not quite since Irish and Jews didn't come to America with the preconceived notion to hate us and destroy us from within.

Virtually all those who bandy about the word «biblical» cherry - pick verses to substantiate a preconceived notion instead of dealing with it in context.

The reason why it doesn't help is that you operate on the automatic assumption that your right, and can not see anything that is brought up against the concept of the christian god because it is outside your own preconceived notions.

He doesn't appear to believe all the things those people write, just the things that agree with his preconceived notions.

Not for whether or not it fits your preconceived notion of God and how / why he would do what he does but rather for what it does for you in your life.

Preconceived notions usually bias people's judgment regarding scripture.

Ask Jesus in faith for dicernment and start reading the new testament... You will be shocked when you lay down your preconceived notions and... see and hear truth... see how christ sets an example... feel the truth...

The Bible is trying to tell us a story, and when we try to make all the details fit our preconceived notion of what really happened, we end up losing the force of the story.

In fact, we often need to have our own beliefs challenged precisely in order to free our understanding of God from preconceived notions, in order to open our minds and hearts to the real greatness of God.

It never ceases to amaze me the convoluted arguments an academic with a preconceived notion about a social issue will go to advance his point of view.

Bigot traditionally hatred of a group of people, especially a racial, regional, or religious group, based on preconceived notions about said group.

You would say that's just my «unyielding neck» and then I only expected proof from my man made preconceived notions.

A person who does any kind of coun - seling with preconceived notions of what is best for the client, or of what the person «ought» to be and do, is not a good counselor no matter what the focus of the problem.

Some of my preconceived notions about religion and religious people have been proven false.

(hint: read 1 Cor 15:24 - 28 without bringing your preconceived notion of The Father ending Jesus» mediatorial reign and inaugurating his kingly reign).

Leave out preconceived notions, and be honest about what you feel regarding this existence.

I read the following yesterday and it made me think of your assignment: «Often we can be trapped by our own preconceived notions of how God judges, how God reacts, and how God relates to us.

Generally if you think enough about religion without preconceived notions you'll come to the conclusion that they're all nonsense.

Your ability to bend reality to fit your preconceived notions is all I see going on here.

In keeping to this attitude we grant the text the opportunity to appear as an authentically different being and to manifest its own truth over and against our preconceived notions.»

I can certainly see how trauma can shake our preconceived notions.

---- the egyptian mystery systems — maybe they are not as mysterious as you think, maybe worth another look, — this time without preconceived notions — like that they are pagan, like that they are about gods and goddesses — try to find and establish the «Eye», which the glyphs speak of ---- Comparison is the key, to the door which is Life --

@DWN,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, When I read the bible years ago, I went in with preconceived notion that there was some sort of factual evidence, some consistency,....

If you study BASIC BIOLOGY, and BASIC PHYSICS, and go into the works of Darwin and Newton and Einstein with «preconceived notions» (which you got from bible brainwashing) then you «may come out as confused as when you went in.»

In response to the first quote from Palmer, we would say that one reason the Calvinist so clearly see election in this text is precisely because they read the Bible with preconceived notions about election.

Or he may hear a demand that he can not meet, or be required to change a preconceived notion or opinion.

I've asked myself — and others — many times «if someone read the Bible and had absolutely NO preconceived notions about its meaning, what doctrines would they come up with?»

It just doesn't fit your preconceived notion of what Christianity claims.