Quotes About Open-mindedness

If you don't travel the world and see as much of it as you can - see different characters in different situations - then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn't believe that, about other possibilities?

You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world.

Young people - and skaters - are very, very open-minded.

Skeptical doesn't have to necessarily be a negative thing. I think if you allow yourself to second guess things and look at things from a distance you don't immediately run into things blindfolded, so that's a positive.

I'm not a very skeptical person.

I am willing to believe, but I do not have the gift of faith. I'm skeptical.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

The skill of a good creative leader is being comfortable with blowing up an idea and knowing it will get better.

There's a difference between talent and skill. You might have writing talent, but skill is learned. You have to practice. I remain teachable. I was sure that I didn't know everything. People who work with me will tell you I don't think I know everything. I watch people sink around me thinking that they knew everything.

I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind of rationalization is that? I'm just friends with people that I like. I don't care what skin color you are.

We are definitely not racists; we don't care about people's skin color.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.

You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.

I'm open to trying new things. That's why I think Birchbox is so awesome! It's something to look forward to and introduces me to something maybe I wouldn't have picked out, but fall in love with.

Shift from judgment to compassion to love.

I celebrate every culture. I love the mix of cultures and I'm never going to change that because that's inspiring to me.

I love movies where people see the world from a different angle.

I love all kinds of different music.

I love different kinds of movies, and I love different kinds of people. That's the spice of life.

I love playing a role where I think I'm right and then you learn you're not.

I think both sides have done a bit of a disservice to science by insisting that it must be one thing or the other. Things are likely to turn out to be not so straightforward as either camp would have you believe.