Quotes About Open-mindedness

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

You have to respect people for what they do. Just because you don't like it, it's like, I don't like heavy metal too much, but I can still respect it.

You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people.

If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.

When you're a kid, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted by prejudices. You're much more open-minded. Much more interested in the world around you. 'Sweet Tooth' is about the world returning to that kind of place.

There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue - you know, say, as a gun owner, they may not agree with me, or, you know, someone may not agree with me on a gay marriage topic. Any of those things. But those shouldn't be the reasons you listen to my music.

When I get serious criticism - if I get serious criticism - it's about how I'm thinking and engaging in a topic. I can't think of an example of someone saying, 'You're too nice.'

I would say any creative person has that: you can't just force a topic. Whether you're a painter, you want to do a cartoon. Anything. Something may come up that's not your style or suited to what you are working on at the moment. So you file it away and hopefully find a place for it.

Most people, they're dug in. 'Michael Jordan is the best player, and there's nothing LeBron can do.' A lot of people dug in that LeBron is whiny and he complains, he jumped teams, he wants all the best players. And once you have your mind made up on a particular topic, there's no moving you off of that.

A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

The way the Indian cinema is going, I think more and more films on new topics will be encouraged by the audience.

I'm always good to try something at least once. If I don't like it then I'm not doing it, but I love to try to stay in shape. I've tried spinning for an hour and a half, which was torture.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

Intellectual fascination crosses many boundaries.

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

It's an essential part of becoming more creative. Expand your interests in life. Seek out new, interesting experiences, no matter how mundane or inconsequential they might seem to others. Read books, watch documentaries, and discuss your ideas with others. No subject, no matter how specialized or esoteric, is off limits. You never know where your imagination will find pieces for its puzzles.

In every field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds.

Curiosity is a lens through which you view everything around you. Without it, there are no adventures to be had. With it, there are enough for a million lifetimes.

There's a lesson here. In every field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds.

Read books, watch documentaries, and discuss your ideas with others. No subject, no matter how specialized or esoteric, is off limits. You never know where your imagination will find pieces for its puzzles.

genius code: curiosity. It's an essential part of becoming more creative. Expand your interests in life. Seek out new, interesting experiences, no matter how mundane or inconsequential they might seem to others. Read books, watch documentaries, and discuss your ideas with others. No subject, no matter how specialized or esoteric, is off limits. You never know where your imagination will find pieces for its puzzles.

The interesting person doesn't really listen to what you think or how you feel and can't wait to jump in and give his point of view. The interested person finds your opinion, though different from his, important and allows you to express it.

Thus, we must be insistent on not only our right to express our views, but others to do the same (even if we don't agree with them), lest we all lose our freedom to speak our minds. Voltaire once said, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." We would be smart to uphold this ideal.