Top 18 Blank Slate Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Blank Slate Quotes from famous people such as Xavier Woods, Erik Larson, Roshon Fegan, Scott Rogowsky, Chris Harrison, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

As African-Americans, we don't start with a blank slate

As African-Americans, we don’t start with a blank slate, while other people may. In our position, there’s always some sort of stereotype that is being scrutinized or that is being assumed when we come through the curtain.
Xavier Woods
Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
Erik Larson
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
I brought my personality to HQ. I injected my DNA into this thing. They gave me a blank slate to work with.
Scott Rogowsky
Listen to Your Heart’ was a blank slate. Yeah, there was this outside idea of ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ meets ‘A Star Is Born,’ but what does that mean? You have to actually define that, make it happen.
Chris Harrison
The writing process is the time where nothing’s been set in stone. It’s a blank slate, or a blank page.
Leigh Whannell
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
‘Trolls’ was a blank slate – there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
Walt Dohrn
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
Ben Kingsley
A lot of the fear about being a first-time director is just starting with a completely blank slate and thinking: ‘Is this going to connect with anybody?’
Leigh Whannell
In the ’80s and ’90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.
Zhang Yin
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
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
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
For me, actresses are constantly chameleons, and so they are taking a backseat to their own personality. I don’t feel like we’re trying to show off their personality as much as let them be a blank slate. It’s precisely the reason why I dress more musicians than I do actresses.
Jeremy Scott
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
You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit more of a blank slate.
Jane Goldman
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