In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.
As human beings we have a tendency to filter out information that does not match up with our preconceived beliefs, including the supremacy of our organization.
The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever.
For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.
Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would assume that the main trend of research should be directed toward an examination of abnormalities of the fat metabolism, since by definition excessive accumulation of fat is the underlying abnormality. It so happens that this is the least work has been done.
People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.
I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.
