Sentences with phrase «with preconceived notions»

The modern client often enters into the relationship with an agent armed with preconceived notions about the state of the local market and where prices and demand are headed.

If you go into an area with preconceived notions about what you want to do, you'll set yourself up for a lot of headaches.

Don't start your resume with preconceived notions.

Between online career forums, social media and your organization's efforts to build an employer brand, every interviewee walks in with preconceived notions about what it's like to be an employee.

It's human nature, and never forget that other humans (with all their preconceived notions) are the ones who will decide your fate if you're ever on the wrong end of a liability claim!

Noted psychologist David Kahneman has spent years studying memory, and he has concluded that far from a recording device, memory is driven largely by a process of sorting, weighing, valuing, and, often, construing, with preconceived notions and biases having a big effect on what we remember, and how much.

TH: Did you go in with any preconceived notions, either about the direction of the film or the family or the product?

Models present a monotonic increase as the models are built with some preconceived notions — that means what you are able to think only goes in to the model.

Identifying a downward trend is a case of «people coming at the data with preconceived notions,» said Peterson, author of the book «Why Did They Do That?

Inquiring minds want to know; biased minds want to know only what agrees with their preconceived notions, and will reach for any needlessly complicated contrived assumption to support them.

Mann just fools himself with his expectations leading to silly discoveries like trees must take time outs since their annual rings don't agree with his preconceived notions.

However I agree with this: «This is what I've seen a lot of climate skeptics do: They come into the climate debate with preconceived notions, and they latch on to those handful of dissenting scientists who agree with them.

These abstract expressionist painters are often not depicting anything, they are composing with no preconceived notions of the natural world.

When I played the game on PC I enjoyed it, but I think I went into it with some preconceived notions.

I never treat any dog with the preconceived notions of some rigid training method.

For Matthew J. Smith, a Springfield resident and professor of communication at Wittenberg who teaches a popular study of comics called Graphic Storytelling, «The Graphic Canon» is more proof to win over people with preconceived notions about comics.

She wanted to be sure people were really reading and thinking about her work, rather than going into it with preconceived notions: «Oh here is a woman writer writing about feminism.

Imagine also that you are an open - minded individual with no preconceived notions about any of the parties in this dispute.

Never come into a school year or classroom with preconceived notions.

So many scholars enter studies with preconceived notions and force those same notions out at the exit, allowing no room in between for true empiricism to alter the preordained conclusions.

Key findings include the idea that students come to the classroom with preconceived notions of how the world works.

Speaking as someone that has never seen the musical on stage, or who went into this film with any preconceived notions of how it should or shouldn't be, my personal take on Rent is that it is an interesting, ambitious, but somewhat flawed endeavor that has enough good moments to recommend, but enough weaker elements to keep me from becoming ecstatic over it.

On one hand, I'm not coming to new film adaptation with any preconceived notions.

All of which reinforces Mayfield's refusal to arrive to casting sessions with preconceived notions.

«Because I didn't know about any of it, I could approach the character and the story with no preconceived notions and no judgement already passed on them,» Robbie said in an appearance on «Popcorn with Peter Travers.»

«As a filmmaker, what I love is not going to a film with any preconceived notions or script in mind but letting it evolve naturally.

They don't come into the room with any preconceived notions about their abilities, unlike almost all adults.

«We come to motherhood with preconceived notions and stars in our eyes,» says Debra Gilbert Rosenberg, a licensed clinical social worker, the author of Motherhood Without Guilt: Being the Best Mother You Can Be and Feeling Great About It, and a psychotherapist in Oak Brook, Ill. «The truth is motherhood is tedious, repetitive, sometimes even boring and definitely not glamorous.»

Don't get carried away with preconceived notions on rookies — especially this time of year.

With hundreds of Christian sects with hundreds of different twists of their holy book, what makes you sure you can pick out the «right one», rather than the one that simply aligns with your preconceived notions?

Social agencies, welfare groups, religious organizations, commercial concerns, all have marched into our communities — especially our inner - city communities — with preconceived notions of superimposing their structures upon a community, of afflicting a community with a structure that was developed in some think tank without consulting any significant forces within the community itself.

David Dark, author of The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, seems to appreciate Colbert as well, for he begins his chapter on «Questioning Our Offendedness» with a «tip of the hat» to the comic genius of the caricature that is Stephen Colbert — a caricature that highlights how «we develop a built - in resistance to any information that refuses to fall in line with our preconceived notions.»

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

@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 anyone reading this is leery of tofurkey products (as I was before trying it here), I assure you the flavors in this recipe are strong enough to compete with any preconceived notion of a nasty tofu taste!

«We went in with a preconceived notion of how Jupiter worked, and I would say we have to eat some humble pie,» says Juno mission leader Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

«Information is considered «valid» only if it agrees with our preconceived notion of reality.

«We went in with a preconceived notion of how Jupiter worked,» says Scott Bolton.

A researcher that comes to the data compilations process with a preconceived notion that the world is warming may be eager to explain why the raw data shows no such temperature trend, and quick to accept a rationale for adjusting older temperatures down and more recent temperatures up.

In fact, it makes it look like you have started out with a preconceived notion of what the results should be, then cherry - picked the data to match your predicted results.

Confirmatory Factor Analysis: A type of factor analysis where the researcher begins with a preconceived notion or hypothesis of which factors influence which variables and then measures how well the results and data fit the hypothesis.

Many men go into child custody talks with the preconceived notion that New Jersey family law and...

Not exact matches

«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.»