Quotes About Open-mindedness

Being a great baker and pastry chef requires the upmost open mind. I try every dessert that comes my way!

I feel like anything I'm doing in life, I try to stay myself and be as honest and true as I can be, you know, and be a nice person. I've always been taught to be kind to people and have an open mind about life.

There are people who try to judge. I'm cool with that. I don't care what nobody say - the only thing that can defeat hate is love.

I just try to be respectful of everybody.

I just try not to judge. Don't judge me, and I won't judge you.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

The tendency of experts is to fiddle around with their expertise rather than trying to find new solutions.

My fans are like, 'Lab does what he does,' which is really cool. If I came out with a Jack White rock tune tomorrow, people would be like, 'Yeah, cool man,' which is great.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's passion, but when people are judgmental and aggressive, all you end up doing is getting other people to turn away in irritation. To change people's minds, you have to respect the people you're talking to.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

I don't believe in right-angled turning points.

When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.

Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment - whether it's a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into 'A Beautiful Mind' or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates - has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new.

Any professional athlete who gets on TV or radio and says he never played with a gay guy is a stone-freakin' idiot.

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.

If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.

In a world where globalisation wants to turn everybody into the same thing, I think that anything that allows you to go to another place or be in another world has got to be celebrated.

We do more ready-to-wear and ath-leisure, things you would wear everyday. I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for me.

The listener has a responsibility that not everyone wants to take, especially if you are putting on the new Top 40 record.