Top 1200 Being Open Minded Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

I'm mad in the front of my mind, but business-minded in the back.

You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously.

I think Peter King... he's kind of narrow-minded.

Britain is less European-minded than Greece.

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

I like to take advantage of the simple-minded because I can.

My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.

By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies, from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be lived by the mystery that lives the entire universe.

I read that I’m supposed to be Hollywood’s new sex symbol . I think I’m the most unsexy thing that ever was. I’m open for everything of course, but I’m certainly not aware of being sexy.

When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded.

But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.

Open your eyes, mind and heart to the astonishing miracles of life, to the beauty surrounding you, to the uniqueness of your being, to the wonders you can achieve.

You live this life being selfish, you're not going to enjoy it like you will when you open your heart and your home up.

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a ration, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion

The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn't really just for comedy.

My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.

We do not have to be trapped in the simple-minded binaries of the western world.

I'm too much of a planner. I would have been a dentist; that's what I was thinking of being. Dr. Rex, open wide and say "Ah." I think I'd look good in a smock.

Keeping one's eyes open, listening, watching, being quiet, adopting some of the techniques of the psychoanalyst in talking to people, will bring you that surface from which something more comes.

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.

I'm a commercial-minded songwriter. I'm here to make a living and be on the radio.

You can't tell big dreams to small minded people.

How great in number are the little minded men.

How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.

Thank God for my hobgoblin, small-minded consistency.

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.

The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.

Be strong minded, and always believe that the impossible is possible.

No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.

People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart. To the degree that you didn't understand in the past how to stop protecting your soft spot, how to stop armoring your heart, you're given this gift of teachings in the form of your life, to give you everything you need to open further.

You have to be very strong and tough-minded if you want to survive.

I think conservatives can be for very tough-minded trade.

There is just something about being out in open country, about seeing the sun rise over a pond, that's really beautiful.

I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that, it can either make things fantastic or really messy.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

I want to explore for myself and keep an open mind. There is a stigma of being a flat earther and if I'm going to do it I want to know the facts.

I'm totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do it right, I'm also happy for 'Ex Machina' to only ever exist as a comic book.

I went through very emotional things this year, like being in the French Open finals already feeling like you got it and kind of losing it.

I know being an open, honest, outspoken person gets me into trouble all the time, but I don't know how to be any other way.

I don't have any problem with drag being more mainstream... I enjoy the fact that we're moving toward a place where people are a lot more open.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.

How great in number are the little minded men

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

I think part of the whole agenda of being open for business is about making sure that people can get here and also get there.

I am not close minded at all to having more children.

I like to be open with journalists and I like to be honest. I hate being disingenuous because that's really uncomfortable for me; I don't excel at doing that.

When you're trying to persuade people, more often than not, they feel you're being pushy. When you focus on influencing them, they're much less defensive and open to hearing what you have to say.

Being open to the concept that globalisation is only 10-20% complete leaves room for some expectation that there might be more gains to be achieved from further integration.

The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers

Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus, empathy has been turned off. When we shift our attention to dual focus empathy has been turned on. Empathy is our ability to identify what someone else is thinking or feeling and to respond to there thought or feelings with an approriate emotion. Empathy makes the other person feel valued, enabling them to feel that their thoughts and feelings have been heard.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

He released her with obvious reluctance and shoved open his door, then came around to open her door. His chivalry brought an even broader smile. "Bet this doesn't last long", she teased. He took her hand. "You keep waiting for me to open it, and I will keep coming around.

From the age of 6 to 33, I was utterly driven and single-minded.

There is a fine line between being glamorous and vulgar. I am open to glam roles as long as they don't look vulgar on screen.