Quotes About Open-mindedness

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

I'm very attracted to Indians.

If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth.

I have nothing against individuals, I take people as I find them.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

Growing up in any big city, you get exposed to so many beautiful cultures. I've grown up with a lot of open eyes around me that's influenced my eyes to open.

I'm really influenced by so many different things.

I've always had influences from all over the place, like Mr. Bungle and Primus. As a band, we try not to focus too much on where it's coming from, because we're always listening to music.

If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs.

I don't edit information, I follow it.

We will, as Americans, inhale another culture on a fork before we try their music or their art or even, God forbid, hang out with the actual people.

We should all be allies to ideas or people or initiatives that we don't necessarily have a real knowledge in.

Diversity is critical to innovation.

Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.

Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.

I love playing instruments that I don't know how to play or am not familiar with. I like the idea of danger and innocence that comes from it. As an artist, I feel I should be able to do something with anything I get my hands on. The music becomes minimalist because of my limited knowledge.

The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.

Most of my colleagues have been insulated in Indian music alone - they did not think of the world beyond what they knew - but I always did and still do.

The Informe should no longer be the scene used to insult, beat, and criticize on the basis of preconfigured conceptions.

A certain degree of intellectual humility is a good thing.

The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking.

I don't know much, but nor do I have the intellectual straitjacket that a lot of people inevitably pick up at university.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.