Quotes About Open-mindedness

It's always better to treat those with whom you disagree with compassion - if not for compassion's sake, then because it makes it much more likely that they'll actually be willing to listen to what you have to say.

I am totally down with disagreement. I don't like Haterade, but disagreement is wonderful. When someone disagrees, we try to reach common ground. That's good.

I have disagreements with some and more agreements with others. But that doesn't mean I cannot listen to those I disagree with.

We must have real debates where disagreements exist, listen to each other, not shy away from ideas different from our own and treat people with respect.

While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things.

You have to learn to have discourse with people you don't necessarily agree with.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.

I never discriminate between roles being offered.

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.

We can have our beliefs and still read and discuss things.

Classroom discussion is where you learn how to debate an idea and stick with an opinion, even when others don't agree - and not take it personally, either.

Your idea of that dish has evolved, and if you're a cook, you can start thinking in different ways about it, maybe even a different way than I think about it.

I think disparaging something you don't understand, while a very normal thing - I expect more from serious people.

We can't disrespect people for having a different opinion.

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.

I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults.

The reason I can achieve so many different feelings is because the people I listen to have always been so diverse.

Diversity is not a skin thing, necessarily. Diversity is you have people around the table who have different backgrounds and different experiences and think differently.

I love diversity.

I believe in diversity in thought, in culture, and all sort of things.

We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.

Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

To experiment different kinds of roles always works well.