Quotes About Open-mindedness

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

It's nice to fool around with clothes, and that comes from some recklessness. I suddenly feel like wearing a lungi and a jacket, and now I have the access to do what I want. When I was doing theatre, my Muslim friends would invite me to an Iftar party, and I'd go wearing a dhoti while others would be in a kurta-pyjama.

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

I just like cars, period. I can find something to like about pretty much any car. I've had as much fun whipping around Italy in a little Mini Cooper as I've had whipping through Miami in a Bentley GT.

I have black friends, but I don't just hang out with black kids. I might pull up with Indian kids, white kids, black kids, whatever.

I have to give credit to my mum for my music taste. She's white and Welsh but she listens to dancehall, reggae, Reggaeton.'

For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen... I don't want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

I most certainly am not harboring any sort of negative feeling toward the gay community. I don't have an opinion on people with different religious, sexual or political preferences. I'm one of the most liberal artists that I think you will ever meet, and I pride myself on that.

In the 40 years that I've been a priest and the 17 as a bishop, I have experienced people coming at things in a different way. That's the way adults are, that's the way the world is, and that's OK.

In the end, playing for England means very little if you don't see the rest of the world around you. It is why I hate prima donnas and arrogance.

Generalizing a type of people is really primitive.

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

Openness, respect, integrity - these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.

I don't think I'm a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I'm clearly not homophobic! I'm not pro or con.

An artist must be open to both appreciation and criticism. It's a part of the learning process, or else there is no growth.

I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.

People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.

I think the more open-minded people we have - like casting directors and producers - the better things are going to be.

The thing about hip-hop producers, and the thing about hip-hop musicians, is that we listen to everything. And we're inspired by everything. I'd say even more so than any other genre of music.