Quotes About Open-mindedness

determination is the most important quality in a founder, open-mindedness and willingness to change your idea are key, and all startups face rejection at first.

I'd rather see the world from a different angle.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try to work from.

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.

Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.

What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.

It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.

It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

When people say no to me, I say, "Don't say no to me. There is a waywe can work this out."

If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.

When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.

Be eager to explore new discoveries

Don't be too rigid, always be ready and eager to make new discoveries

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

Being stubborn is not an asset. You have to be able to see things through other people's eyes.

Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.

I don't know that Five was a good person before he got stuck in the apocalypse, in a way that really made him a bit more open-minded.

I find, a lot of the time, kids can get stuck on, 'Oh no, he doesn't have blue eyes,' with books. You're kind of like, 'Well, that you're going to get over by the time the movie comes out.'

Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

One needs to constantly read up, practice and work, irrespective of your profession. If I feel as an actor that I know everything, then how will I to grow? How will I improve? I'll be stuck in a rut, and eventually I'll grow complacent.

I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.