Dion Waiters Quotes

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'

Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

It's always nice when people discover I'm a normal person and not, because of my appearance, a half-crazed lunatic who may stab them with a Bic pen.

I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.

I have come to learn that preliminary judgments are not judgments.

Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

I think that people assume when they meet me that I'm going to judge what they're wearing.

I've learned that you really cannot judge a book by its cover.

I don't judge anybody until I meet them.

Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad. Then you read one, and you can say, 'This book is amazing.' That's the same with meeting people.

People make conclusions about somebody before they actually get to know someone.

If you judge me only by my profession, you don't know me at all. Those people who do that? They'll never know me.

I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody.

Don't assume I'm dumb because I wear a suit and tie.

I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.

It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.