Quotes About Open-mindedness

Football can be played in different ways and the more ways you know, the better you will be. If you know only one way, you're limiting your possibilities.

I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.

You always want to be open to possibilities in the new year.

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

I'm the farthest thing from a hater if any of the former guys do the post UFC commentary shows. I would never knock anybody for doing them.

I learned early on that it's important to respect every idea as if it could potentially be worth something later.

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

There's an assumption if you have any faith you vote this way, you vote that way, or you're this, or you're absolutely a conservative, and those just aren't all true.

Myself, I'm a post-ideological conservative.

If anyone had any advice for me, like, I would try to take it into consideration because I feel like, if it's good or bad advice, I can still take some bits out of it and try to use that to better yourself.

Too often, we take our construct of reality as an absolute, and what I'm trying to point out for most people is it's important for us to know what we don't know.

I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.

I don't like controversies. I try to understand where a person comes from and where he is.

Not everything is about causing controversy. That would be a very boring way to go.

If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.

I am interested in everything, which sounds like a cop out. Having been a magazine writer, I do not have a beat.

I think, for me, my goal is to continue to be teachable. I can't see around corners, but I want to be able to walk enough in my life where I go around more corners than I ever thought I could go around.

If you already think you are correct and there's nothing else you can learn in life, then I think you are in trouble.

I listen to everything. I sing country music, but I listen to different stuff.

When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.

I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'

My best mates when I was 19 were all in their 30s. I used to go to all their house parties, and they were crazier than the guys who were 17, 18. They were so much more liberated than the people who were apparently shackle-free.

I always think of the craziest idea first and then work backwards, because you never know: that person that you think would never return your call might be sitting at home with nothing to do.