Top 1200 Being Open Minded Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.

I think it's important to not just speak to like-minded people.

My parents have been very broad-minded and let us do what we wanted.

[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture.

You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.

Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.

Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

Let us open wide the windows of our hearts, that each family member may feel welcome and 'at home.' Let us open also the doors of our very souls, that the dear ________ may enter. Remember His promise: 'Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him' (Revelation 3:20).

I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.

The future will be owned and operated by the entrepreneurial ly minded.

You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.

The Washington Post was interesting because it's such a politically minded newspaper.

A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather boa, or a snake, light as air, and you... you don't even ask for anything or try to say something to him because it's obviously your own damn fault. You haven't been able to- to what? To open your heart. You open your legs but can't, or don't dare anymore, to open your heart.

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

I'm very determined, single-minded, just ask the wife.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning.

The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.

I think to put someone in a box is somewhat narrow-minded.

I'm not a guy who wants to skydive and open my parachute at the last minute. I want to open my parachute right away and know what's coming.

You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and form and realize that in the depth of your being, you are already complete, whole, one with the timeless essence of all life.

It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.

Maybe I've limited my opportunities by being so open about my sexuality, but my thinking is that, if I come out of the gates this way, then it's not really going to be a big deal in a couple of years.

I have a very broad-minded family. Acting is an art, and we understand that.

I just think that most of the people are very close minded.

I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.

Watch people and how they handle other people. You have to stay open and keep your eyes open to them.

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

Isn't it curious that narrow-minded people are often the most thickheaded?

I'm very budget-minded myself, and it serves me well.

A low-minded person should not be given good advice.

I love to sit down and have a conversation with like-minded people.

The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are the new beginnings.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

Unity among like-minded liberal democracies is paramount.

I'm afraid I am tidy, and I have to be because the office is open plan and my glass office door is literally always open.

I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

I like to think of myself as a leader whose door is always open. But I recently learned that an open door isn't enough.

South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.

I just don't think enough players realize the power of these programs and the doors they open for you if you go about your business right and take advantage of being at great school.

I've hung on for a long time in this business and had some success, and I think it's keeping an open mind and being curious and having a sense of humor about oneself that's important.

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

China's Communist Party is wary of independent-minded movements.

From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.

In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience, too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling.

[9/11] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

I've always just kind of been a single-minded person.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected.

Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.

He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.

Like many kids, I grew up sports-minded.

I dismiss personal profit and focus exclusively on people and planet. That's what I call social business: a nondividend company dedicated to solving human problems. You can go all the way, forgetting about personal profit, being single-minded about solving problems. The company makes profit, but profit stays with the company.