Quotes About Open-mindedness

From now on, change will be the constant. The individuals best prepared to succeed are those who can learn, modify, and grow, regardless of age, experience, or ego.

Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.

It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.

All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet.

Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.

I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.

Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.

If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

But one thing the New Age folks and those who pursue alternative spiritual visions need to be aware of is how easily we can become and at times in my experience are like the religious right.

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way.

I enjoyed trying everything. I'd never get a chance to try fencing or archery if it wasn't for this. It was really fun experience.

I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.

I've never been speed dating! I sort of wish I had, just for the experience of it.

People often remain in the dark, not due to lack of light but of failure to open their eyes.

Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited.

I have come not to disturb or destroy any faith, but to confirm each in his own faith - so that the Christian becomes a better Christian, the Muslim, a better Muslim, and the Hindu, a better Hindu.

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself