Quotes About Open-mindedness

It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.

We all go through life living in little bubbles, which we share with people who think pretty much the same as us.

The recipe to our success is that you have a bunch of different guys who listen to a lot of different music.

All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races, all backgrounds. And they're all doing what they want, many scoring huge successes. When I saw that, I became more open. It freed my soul.

It is only the dogmatic, and the humorless, that don't succumb to my charm.

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.

I like to take on the thing I don't like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something that I would never have done in the past, like brocade. And then all of a sudden, if we can make brocade work, then we've really done something, because I hate it. And that's just a reference. I don't actually hate brocade.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

The goal of serious musicians is to play outside of yourself. That's most likely with people who suggest things that are outside your musical experience.

It's interesting to see how a lot of people don't see the other side of the coin. Since they haven't been there. Someone might suggest your character say something that they'd never say. It doesn't occur to them that there are people who think differently about something, from another perspective.

I think people psych themselves out before they listen to jazz a lot, thinking that they have to, like, put on a suit or something. That's not what it is.

Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.

I'm kind of a gypsy, so I love living out of a suitcase and going from place to place meeting people.

It's joyful in that there's another point of view on all things, you know, not just mine. That's why I like to write and collaborate with people. There's another point of view, and when those two things come together, and people work at it really hard, they get something that is the whole is more than the sum of - is that how you say that?

I was raised on 'TRL' and listened to every genre that sounded good to me, from Sum 41 to Jay Z to Band of Horses to J. Dilla to Deathcab for Cutie to Pharrell.

In an ideal world, as a director, you usually wish you could do your own thing and not have to take anyone else's point of view into account, but occasionally you work with someone like Robyn, who brings a new set of ideas to the table, and the whole ends up much greater than the sum of the parts.

One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.

To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.

Do not observe yourself too much. Do not draw too hasty conclusions from what happens to you; let it simply happen to you.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.