Blank Slates Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Blank Slates". There are currently 39 quotes in our collection about Blank Slates. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Blank Slates!
The best sayings about Blank Slates that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity.

  • I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.

    Want   Blank   Slate  
  • There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.

    Happy   Memories   Firsts  
  • Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never happen again and could never have happened before. We aren't blank slates, but we are also communal creatures who are born before our brains are fully developed, so we're very sensitive to our environment. The question is: How to find the support and the circumstances that allow you to express what's inside you?

    Unique   Support   Brain  
    "Celebrating Gloria Steinem’s 80th Birthday" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2014.
  • I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just a blank slate.' And I had an opportunity to go to different schools, but I chose Brown because it was unique and allowed you to be yourself as an individual and like I said, it's a blank slate.

    "Interview: Acting, Gaming, And Math Science With 'searching For Sonny' Star Masi Oka". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. August 29, 2012.
  • I've never been about trying to promote a brand of Squarepusher. I've never been keen on that idea that these are the character traits that I've got to stick with and amplify and keep pushing forward and pushing on the public. I'm really happy to throw it all away and start each record with a blank slate but I concede you've got a point, there are things I can't get rid of, no matter how hard I try.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

    "Steven Pinker: the optimistic voice of science" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2011.
  • The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

    Zero   Simple   Mind  
    "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 8, 2002.
  • You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.

    "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.
  • A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.

    Baby   Character   Play  
  • I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and occasionally I'm capable of that, but I have to admit that I really have trouble working with completely open briefs.

    Source: facingsideways.com
  • The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.

    Brain   Stones   Blank  
  • Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.

    People   Hip Hop   Hips  
  • When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.

    "NRA chief: Obama makes 'mockery' of American freedoms" by Lateef Mungin, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2013.
  • The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember those ethics of passivity!). She's never a woman of color. SHe's never a low-income girl or a fat girl. She's never disabled. "Virgin" is a designation for those who meet a certain standard of what women, especially young women, are supposed to look like. As for how these young women are supposed to act? A blank slate is best.

    Girl   Sexy   Color  
  • Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the world with predetermined abilities, proclivities and temperaments that nurturing parents may be able to foster or modify, but can rarely reverse.

  • It was a lot of fun to play a character [in Swiss Army Man] with no inhibitions, and with no knowledge of the world, and who comes into the world kind of like a blank slate. It means there's no template or blueprint for how you need to play certain scenes.

    Fun   Character   Mean  
    Source: www.buzzfeed.com
  • Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

    Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.
  • What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.

    Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.378, Simon and Schuster
  • I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

  • We're not blank slates. What we've done, what we've survived all go into us.

    Done   Blank   Slate  
    Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.853, Penguin
  • Don't get seduced by your own stuff. Don't get high on your own supply. The hardest thing as a filmmaker is when you're watching a film that you've worked on for several years. You know every frame so intimately that holding lots of the objectivity of a new viewer who has just seen it for the first time is the hardest thing. Every aesthetic decision you make - and you make thousands of them every day, have to - in theory, must be done from you being a blank slate. You almost have to run a program, like a mind wipe, every time you watch the movie.

  • It is so hard for musicians when they step into acting is they're not coming in as a blank slate, they're coming in with a real set idea of who they are, where they're coming from, what their politics are, what their tastes are.

    Real   Ideas   Acting  
    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

  • I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

  • Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

    Blank   Chalk   Music Is  
  • I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

  • When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life. Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices. You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality. They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.

    "Loners". www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2005.
  • Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

  • Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

    Book   Ideas   Blank  
Page 1 of 2
  • 1
  • 2
  • We hope our collection of Blank Slates quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Blank Slates is constantly growing (today it includes 39 sayings from famous people about Blank Slates), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Blank Slates!