Quotes About Open-mindedness

I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.

I have ideas, but those ideas could be wrong. The only way that you would change someone's mind is through dialogue, through productive discussion. If you're not going to have productive discussion, what are you going to do?

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

I think it's ridiculous when people say, 'I don't date actors.' It's about the right person, and no matter what that right person does for a profession, they're still going to be the right person.

I guess it became easier for me to accept negative comments about my work, my profession - anything work-related because like I said I take them as positive criticisms.

I am a human guinea pig and a professional dilettante.

In my 20s and 30s, I vociferously wanted to be single. I rarely got into long-term relationships and enjoyed going out with different people.

It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.

I tend to not think about the kind of movie things I want to be doing, because I've worked in all sorts of different places, and I've spent all sorts of time in England, and I'd still do things in Australia and in America.

I think it's best to know about lots of different things besides comics. I don't think you can become a cartoonist if you look at nothing but cartoons.

I always love trying new and different things.

I think every actor wants to try out different things.

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

The one message I always send to young people is, Don't be afraid to try different things to see what feels right and what's a good fit.

I want to challenge myself in new mediums; I want to leave myself open to different things.

I listen to a lot of different things. I'll be listening to prog rock, then the next couple of hours - Indian.

I like being forced to think about things in a different way.

It's really important to differentiate between being sceptical and cynical.

Just because someone or something thinks differently than you do, it doesn't mean that it's not thinking.

Would Jesus be bashing people for thinking differently than you even if you think it's wrong? Nope. He would be loving on everyone.

I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.

I listen to a lot of criticism. From the Left and the Right and from everywhere. I mean, everybody's a media critic. And sometimes I think it's on point, and other times, I think about it and consider it and then might ultimately disagree with it. But I do listen to it; I really do.