Quotes About Open-mindedness

You could be a woman in Alabama who's a conservative Christian, or you could be a total crunchy-granola woman in Seattle and 20 years old, and both of you would watch Oprah.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

Many guys seem to think that his thoughts and feelings are always right and always the best option. I think I am the same kind of guy.

I like to keep my options open. I'm known for changing my mind.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.

If you ever get to a point where you stop learning, you will find your professional options and your personal satisfaction severely curtailed.

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

Obviously the policies put forward by the IOC and other organizations are evolving and perhaps they may change after I have competed. But I would ask people to keep an open mind and perhaps look to the fact that I didn't win, as evidence that any advantage I may hold is not as great as they may think.

I'm happy to be a part of this new generation where people don't care where you come from, what your orientation is, or what your identity is. They just accept you for you.

If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don't care about a person's sexual orientation.

Sexual orientation, color, background - that's what I want people to take away: Anyone can be anything.

Maybe our work appeals to some people more than others. But the opportunities that I present to my colleagues are completely uninfluenced by gender, race, sexual orientation, or religion.

At the end of the day, I say, 'You do you.' You shouldn't be focusing on convincing people what your sexual orientation is.

If someone wants to make very, very original music that no one has ever heard before, you shouldn't know anything about music. It just narrows you down, you know?

Most people would accept that people come to London from across the world, from all kinds of backgrounds, and are accepted here irrespective of their origins.

You have to go to other countries to realize Taipei is a place where there is diversity of thought.

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

I don't agree with those in our community who think that, as gay people, we are special and should therefore keep ourselves isolated from certain straight-associated thinking or conventions.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

I don't think I extend my hatred to other people's outfits.

I can't sit still for long and need creative outlets and think you should try different things. I mean, if you're a musician all of your life, you gotta try different things. I really believe you can have it all.

My musical output has been consistently acoustic, but my taste has not. I love everything. As long as it's good, I'm in.

I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.