Quotes About Perspective

People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.

An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and complicities.

I listen to different artists. I open my mind to different artists.

Many of us come into the world with a clenched fist, but we all leave with an open hand.

If you keep an open mind, you can learn so much from the people around you.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people.

I always want to listen with an open mind.

I have an open mind, and I try to be critical of none of the bands, even if something's not to my personal taste. After all, somebody worked really hard on that music.

I always been a know-it-all and I think I've learned to have more of an open mind.

If you don't open your eyes to other people's lives, you can't even begin to understand how the world works at all.

A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.

I come from a middle-class family, but we are open-minded people.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.

I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor.

I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.

My parents are really open-minded, but with their own daughter, it's not the same thing.

I'm open-minded and never think I know everything. I actually feel like I know nothing, and that allows me to learn on a different level.

Be open-minded and available to everything and not just saying it's Jesus Christ or bust. So much of the world will do that. I find it troubling... Don't be dogmatic.

Having life taken away from you for a little while forces you to be more open-minded and to go live.

In 1983, when I did 'Sindhu Bhairavi' and played the other woman, many men came up to me and said it opened up a lot to them. The film showed that a man and woman could have an intellectual and artistic relationship.