Quotes About Blank Slate

#1. 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.

Gregory B. Sadler

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

Ray Charles

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

Sarah Addison Allen

#4. 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.

Lauren Willig

#5. 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

#6. The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

Steven Pinker

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

Rob Brown

#8. He'd returned to this world with his mind wiped clean. The proverbial blank slate.

Haruki Murakami

#9. 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.

Jeanne Moreau

#10. 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.

Kristen Schaal

#11. 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.

Roshon Fegan

#12. 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.

Juan Cole

#13. Having a blank slate is sometimes as daunting as it is exciting.

Joe Madureira

#14. There is a brief moment when you first wake where you have no memories. An idyllic blank slate. A blissful emptiness. But it doesn't last long. You remember exactly who you are and all the terrible things you've gone through.

J.L. Weil

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

Erik Larson

#16. This is what happens when you treat your 168 hours as a blank slate. This is what happens when you fill them up only with things that deserve to be there. You build a life where you really can have it all.

Laura Vanderkam

#17. 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.

Ann Coulter

#18. My future was a blank slate and only I could write on it.

Carter Quinn

#19. 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.

Alison Gopnik

#20. 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.

Jane Brody

#21. It's only at first sight,when the mind's a blank slate,that you get the purest look.
So I fold the flap back,and write:
Tumbleweeds.

Alyson Noel

#22. We are curious creatures, we Taiwanese. Orphans. Eventually, orphans must choose their own names and write their own stories. The beauty of orphanhood is the blank slate.

Shawna Yang Ryan

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

Audrey Niffenegger

#24. 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

Julie Anne Peters

#25. 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.

Shirley Manson

#26. Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

D. B. Weiss

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

Wayne LaPierre

#28. I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

Ben Kingsley

#29. 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.

Preeti Bhonsle

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

James Cameron

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

Candace Bushnell

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

Tobey Maguire

#33. It's a blank slate here, filled with possibility.

Suzanne Young

#34. A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy fo 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.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Rachel Sklar

#36. Every day is a blank canvas to use our free will to create something beautiful for our Creator.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#37. The mind of a baby is a tabula rasa; society writes information on his mind.

Debasish Mridha