Quotes About Open-mindedness

For any creative person, along with learning, unlearning is also important.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

At the end of the day, every person makes their own evaluation and their own criticism and it's all respectable. I don't want to say who is right and who isn't.

I'm not here to criticize anyone.

Obviously, I respect the expression of different artists. I do not judge or criticize the style of anyone.

Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.

In certain cultures, they'll eat an eyeball. I'm never gonna be that guy.

I listen to everything from The Cure and The Clash to Prince and George Clinton.

I try to be led by my curiosity.

I feel curious about every situation I'm in.

Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.

I have a curious mind.

I can work with skeptics - cynics are a little bit harder because they already have their mind made up. There's nothing that I'm going to say that's going to change that.

I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

I think it's dangerous being cynical because you close doors rather than open them.

I like to dabble in a lot of things.

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by nation states, class systems, cultures and even religions. But often they are the last!

I think my favourite thing about doing conventions is the parents taking their kids to see their favourite drag idols, because open-minded, progressive parents are making such a change in the world right now. The more open-minded these kids are being raised, the more hope I have for the future.

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just scared because they can't do it. A lot of them just aren't talented enough to do anything new, honestly.

Other kids' parents wouldn't let them read magazines like 'Weird Tales,' but my folks were big readers themselves, so they didn't mind.

If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.

Everybody should live their lives to the fullest with no hassles, no hold-backs, no matter what age, what color you are... I don't have an issue talking about it, taking the forefront of it.

Dialogue can be held with everyone. It is not necessary to be like-minded to hold talks, but it is compulsory to be right-minded.