Top 1200 Being Open Minded Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

I think people in theater are pretty open-minded and objective about the talent and what they can bring to the story they want to tell.

People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.

Our true fans won't go anywhere. Hopefully they will be open-minded towards how we are growing as musicians and as women.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Magic is, in its core, introverted and closed; it's the most closed community ever, and I want to change all that and make it more open. If we want things to change, we have to be more open-minded.

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

In order for us to be successful... we have to be able to and be open-minded enough to reinvent ourselves every six months.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.

I'm always tempted to say, 'Nah, that won't work.' But I think you should be willing to try ideas out before saying no. Be open-minded.

Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!

It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them.

I'd always thought of myself as an open-minded person. I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness. There's another kind, too, the kind that's willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them. That's the part I still need to work on.

There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.

Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a chance.' So they let him operate.

I am who I am, and I'm not going to tell someone I don't have the worldview I have. That doesn't mean I'm not open-minded and won't meet with anybody.

I believe in the paranormal and I accept it but I don't change my life around it. I'm not an avid follower, as it were. I am open-minded.

Be open-minded and available to everything and not just saying it's Jesus Christ or bust. So much of the world will do that. I find it troubling... Don't be dogmatic.

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.

Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole story. Grandparents, in the absence of the social institutions that once demanded civilized behavior, have their work cut out for them. Our grandchildren are hungry for our love and approval, but also for standards being set.

Having life taken away from you for a little while forces you to be more open-minded and to go live.

When people ask me if I'm liberal or conservative, I say, 'Yeah.' I'm both of them. To be a liberal means to be open-minded and generous and open to new ideas. And to be conservative means to hold onto things that are important, things that shouldn't be cast aside.

My mother was an art school teacher and my father was an interior designer. So we've been relatively open minded as opposed to my conservative maternal side.

What the world needs most is openness: Open hearts, open doors, open eyes, open minds, open ears, open souls.

I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.

I think women are particularly open-minded, partly because we're cultivated to be and also because we're collaborative.

So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded westerners generally view listening to the natural world as a metaphor, as opposed to the way the world really is. Trees and rocks and rivers really do have things to say to us.

San Francisco is a lot like Amsterdam - free, open-minded and casual - though I expected better weather.

I don't know that Five was a good person before he got stuck in the apocalypse, in a way that really made him a bit more open-minded.

I think when people say they dread going into work on Monday morning, it's because they know they are leaving a piece of themselves at home. Why not see what happens when you challenge your employees to bring all of their talents to their job and reward them not for doing it just like everyone else, but for pushing the envelope, being adventurous, creative, and open-minded, and trying new things?

I don't have a type looks-wise, but all my exes have been funny, open-minded and ambitious. I can't stand men with no passion in life.

I am under no illusion that yoga is the solution to all issues! That's why I am a very open-minded yogi.

My model for Kirk was Horatio Hornblower from the C.S. Forester sea stories. Shatner was open-minded about science fiction and a marvelous choice.

I do feel very strongly about my values and principles, but at the end of day I'm open-minded and I enjoy listening to other people's agendas.

I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.

Ranchi is a much better place than Mumbai or any other big city in the country. People here are simple and open-minded.

There's always a message in my music, you just gotta be able to just sit there and be open-minded.

If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can.

Dialogue can be held with everyone. It is not necessary to be like-minded to hold talks, but it is compulsory to be right-minded.

I think for the open-minded, I'm a lot like Luciano Pavarotti... But I don't know the technique. I'm learning. I think Pavarotti was a citizen of the world. He was very eclectic. He sang with Sting and with a lot of other pop artists, and this open-mindedness, for me, is very important.

The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.

I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses the boundaries of traditional - center-right and center-left have much more in common with each other right now than the right does with the center-right, and the left does with the center-left.

My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.

I think my fans are much more open-minded than some other bands' fan bases are.

At Revolt, everyone's always open minded and always coming together for a solution.

Some people forget that when you are collaborating, you aren't always right. So you have to be open-minded and have to remember there are two minds creating. So you have to respect the other person.

I've always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible and competitive.

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.

To grow, change, love, adapt, experience. We have to be open minded. This is the life and that's the way it should be lived.

I think the more open-minded people we have - like casting directors and producers - the better things are going to be.

I want to share what I have, and I'd rather share it with people that are a little bit more open-minded.

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.