Quotes About Open-mindedness

Free yourself from the imprisonment of your own limiting beliefs and prejudices."

you're nuts but you're welcome here.

Thinking outside-of-the-box is a tactical skill that should be practiced daily by everyone. A truly great 'strategic' skill is when someone is able to get others to think outside-of-the-box.

You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with.

I feel like, Estonia, the sky is so low, and the people are much more close-minded than in America. So when I came to the U.S., I had a massive explosion of creativity and felt like I could do basically anything I want.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

I think that any channel, whether it's Fox, CNN, or whatever, if they were truly giving a 360-view of what's going on, we would be better equipped to not slap judgments on people we really don't understand.

I'm not a country music fan, so if you slide me some music and say, 'You gotta check this out; it's country,' I'm going to be a little hesitant to listen, and I think if someone says, 'Hey, you gotta listen to this guy rap; he's Christian,' you're like, 'I don't identify as Christian, so not really sure I want to listen to that.'

I'm always up for collaborating with people who are slightly leftfield.

A lot of people want to put you in a slot. They want to categorize you. So I fought that, because I liked all different kinds of music.

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

Ontarians don't want to believe that they are small people. They want to believe that they're open and that they're inclusive - and I believe that they are.

The world is getting smaller. And people are bumping up against people from different parts of the world with very different points of view. The challenge of our time is going to be, how do you allow other points of view to exist within what you traditionally see as your world?

It is nice to be out there, amongst contemporaries on a global scale. You meet different people, see different things, meet different producers, eventually grow to collaborate in different ways. The world is getting smaller. It's nice not to be insular.

I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

You don't have to always be the smartest person in the room, but if you listen and absorb what you are hearing, you will be ahead of the game.

Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.

It's not easy. I make snap judgments, too, and I start to write people off. And then I start to remind myself of how I'm constantly asking judges not to write people off. And so then I try to resist it.

I'm not a snob. I can make a meal out of anything. I can eat anywhere.

It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.