Misconception Quotes

• There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Misconception
  • Navy
  • Cruise ship

• One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.

  

  Thorsten Heins
  • Parent
  • Smartphones
  • Blackberries

• There are still so many misconceptions out there, including that gays come from bad families. Maybe I don't completely change people's minds, but I make them think twice.

  

  Candace Gingrich
  • Mind
  • Stills
  • Including

• Anarchism is not chaos; Anarchism is not rejection of organization. This is another popular misconception, repeated ad nauseam by the corporate media and by anarchism's political foes, especially Marxists (who sometimes know better).

  

  Chaz Bufe
  • Organization
  • Chaos
  • Rejection

• I think a lot of people have a misconception of what the kitchen is about, but you know the grueling part of it is also the pleasure of it. That's why I think you have to have a certain mentality to understand what that is and be able to handle it.

  

  Todd English
  • Pleasure
  • Kitchen
  • Certain

• Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Term
  • Misconception

• The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Work
  • Majority
  • Misconception

• I think the biggest misconception is that people think deaf people are not able to do things.

  

  Nyle DiMarco
  • Able
  • Deaf
  • Misconception

• I think the biggest misconception about me probably is ... I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.

  

  Suge Knight
  • Weak
  • Saint
  • Prey

• I don't necessarily agree with everything I read about my films, but I wouldn't highlight a specific misconception: If people think this or that about myself or my work, they must have their reasons.

  

  Anne Fontaine
  • Films
  • Agree
  • Misconception

• It's a misconception that all singers need to portray a messed up, dirty look to prove their identity.

  

  Harshvardhan Rane
  • Identity
  • Singers
  • Misconception

• I think there's a misconception of my wanting to do dark stuff.

  

  Susanne Bier
  • Thinking
  • Dark
  • Stuff

• The biggest misconception may be about my birth country, Lithuania, due to the lack of knowledge about it, but also probably because some strong lobbies work against European construction. There is a huge difference between what I hear from the French media, for example, and what I know about this country and its people.

  

  Alante Kavaite
  • Country
  • Media
  • Misconception

• Always making sure I'm clean. And that's truly what it's about. I think it's a lot of misconceptions about what a man is, what a thug is, and all that kind of stuff.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Kind
  • Stuff
  • Clean

• Definitely the biggest misconception is that it is overly burdensome to be a woman and pursue this line of work. But being a woman gives me a unique perspective and style, which is probably why I get the work that I do.

  

  Reed Morano
  • Work
  • Woman
  • Perspective

• The biggest misconception usually is to assume that I am a scientist and that I work for scientists. I work for the public to access the surreal and fantastical in science.

  

  Nelly Ben Hayoun
  • Scientist
  • Assuming
  • Misconception

• The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a misconception - there are lots of categories of untruth, not one grab bag. And hotographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Truth
  • Chance
  • Photographs

• Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Society
  • Political
  • Action

• The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • People
  • Control
  • Situation

• There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring out what people really need or want but can't have or afford.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Misconception

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