I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films the people that feel they know me they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.
With any work worth its salt you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions you are not taking its measure.
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
The conception that instead of this contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who though they are still comparatively few are getting more and more of a hearing.
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.
There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them but this was my mother saying 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them fair enough.'
The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.
Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it that the Union was preserved.
What guides Marxism then is a different model of society and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
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.
It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
I think the materialist conception of history is valid.