Quotes about Blank Slate

Having a blank slate is sometimes as daunting as it is exciting. Votes: 4

I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want. Votes: 4

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up. Votes: 4

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I probably shouldn't say this about all animals, but at least the farm animals that I've hung out with, and even when I go to the zoo usually, they're like a blank slate. I guess that's why I like them. They're puppets, and you can imagine them being anything you want. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate Votes: 3

When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone's graffiti. Votes: 3

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. Votes: 3

What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa. Votes: 3

There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness. Votes: 3

Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film. Votes: 3

You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere. Votes: 3

The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface. Votes: 3

There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality. Votes: 3

Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one's mind not be a blank slate but already properly formed, disciplined, and exercised. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Thus, true long-term change is brought about not by destructive passion of the moment but by well-reasoned constructive action. Violent shock of Armageddon that leaves nothing in its wake but a blank slate is not a solution, only a postponement of progress. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

My room is cleared. My head is cleared. Earlier, around dawn, I took out the last load of trash. I look around and see what's left. Nothing. There is no more Daelyn Rice. As I was. As I am. Or will become. I'm a blank slate Votes: 3

The most important thing to realize is we're not blank slates at birth. We don't start off with nothing in our heads, and then get imprinted entirely by our environment. There's something in our heads on the day we're born, and then we grow up and make choices. Votes: 3

...this cryptic game of hide-and-seek is what makes it one of the greatest historical mysteries. So many of the symbols can be interpreted in so many different ways, there's always the possibility that all we're really looking at is a blank slate onto which anything can be read. Votes: 3

War is a difficult time for everybody - for soldiers on the front and for the people on the road. War takes away from us everything that we know, as we know it. It gives us a blank slate to re-write our lives and for ink it gives us blood. Votes: 3

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse. Votes: 0