Quotes About Open-mindedness

Growing up in Wales, there was a lot of fervour about being Welsh. But the more that I travelled, I realised that people aren't always interested in where you're from, but who you are.

I feel lucky. I grew up in an open-minded, multi-cultural community in West Vancouver in Canada. There were people who had escaped some kind of oppression. Some of them were first-generation immigrants, others were one or two generations back.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

I can watch anything from 1970s West Coast rock to 1990s electro-funk - I don't care.

Education is neither eastern nor western.

You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.

I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.

We need all people, everyone, to think for themselves, to think critically, to think abstractly, to develop their powers of empathy.

I don't have a favorite drink. I don't do favorites of anything, practically.

I like to think limitlessly, and you can't be limitless if you're constantly looking at best practices.

I have always been the kind of guy to adjust to anything. I never cared where I was going to sleep or what court I was going to practise on.

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever - absolutely no such thing.

One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

I think when kids are younger, they don't have these preconceived notions of what a transsexual person is.

Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.

I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.

So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre.

I have no preconceived ideas; I gave that up a long time ago... The only thing we can do as musicians is make an album we like, and an album that we consider to be incredibly good.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.

If there was just music without any genres, then people would look at a lot of things afresh, and approach a record without any preconceptions.