Quotes About Open-mindedness

I listen to everything while I train. From old school reggae, to classical stuff like Bach, to hip-hop, to rock and roll.

There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.

I hosted Soul train but I listen to everything.

I don't want to be married to any ideology, because life is a lot more fluid than that, and I think that we're trained and conditioned in this country to think in teams.

It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.

In my opinion, being an all-rounder is good. It is not right that I should be content with qawwali and ignore other forms, since I am basically trained in classical singing. We should be masters of all forms of singing.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

There are a number of traits that combine to create entrepreneurial potential. We find that openness coordinates very well with successful entrepreneurs. The more open-minded you are, the more you see the world as it actually is. The more closed-minded, the more you see the world as you want it to be.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Great teachers transcend ideology.

Driving around with my dad, growing up, he would play everything: Philip Bailey, Manhattan Transfer, Frank Zappa, Cream. I'd be like, 'Dad, cut this stuff off!' And he'd say, 'No, you're gonna listen to it.' I didn't understand why he liked it so much. In my mind, I would be thinking about the theme song to 'Sonic the Hedgehog.'

Don't allow old traditions to become permanent mental scripts for managing your life in the present. Reason: you will not be able to transform yourself to think differently and be better as you grow with age and maturity.

I've done a good job of not putting myself in a box, being able to transform, and not being scared to try new things.

I use the transition of the airport, the flying from one place to another to really let go of the -isms, and the ideas that I have as an individual and kind of adapt and begin to morph.

I'll try anything, but the pig testicles in Taiwan were a little much. Eh, it wasn't half bad. There was this one dish I had there, the translation is, 'The Monk Jumps over the Fence.' It's a fish dish with all these spices. It was beautiful, man - it was poetry. It had a whole story.

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

Many witches consider all spiritual paths equally valid and that all lead to the same place. Who or what you believe in—if anything—is totally up to you.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.

You get educated by traveling.

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.

Humans, as a rule, were doggedly determined not to believe in the experiences of anyone but themselves.

I have heard that he is proud, but also honourable and, most importantly of all, amenable to reason