Narrow-minded Quotes - Page 5

• Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition

  Henry Mintzberg

  Powerful, Lying, Effectiveness

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• The world is as large as the range of one's interests. A narrow-minded man has a narrow outlook. The walls of his world shut out the broader horizon of affairs. Prejudice can maintain walls that no invention can remove.

  Joseph Jastrow

  Wall, Men, Prejudice

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• Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was not so interesting. I think it's quite narrow-minded. There wasn't much encouragement or opportunities for any artist - not just Chinese artists.

  Ai Weiwei

  Encouragement, New York, Artist

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• When I was doing theater in the 1950's, 60's and 70's we weren't allowed to film any of the shows that I did, it was against union rules. It was a stupid law, because so much is lost. We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Stupid, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Football, Believe, Racist

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• Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

  Karl Marx

  Men, Doe, Income

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx (pp. 809 - 810), 1857-1858.

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• My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Moving, Thinking, Wife

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• A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.

  Gao Xingjian

  Fall, Thinking, Doe

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• And they would ask, well, now, are you one of those narrow-minded Baptists who think only Baptists are going to heaven? To which I enjoy replying, now actually I'm more narrow than that, I don't think all the Baptists are going to make it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Thinking, Heaven, Baptists

  Mike Huckabee's press conference at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) "Decision 2008", September 28, 2007.

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• When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Wise, Innovation, Prejudice

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.52, Booklassic

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• The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.

  Robert Benchley

  Doctors, Long, May

  Robert Benchley (1922). “Love Conquers All”

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• Those policies [of Jean-Marie Le Pen ]I find repellent. I believe many people right across consist the world do. There is no future in that type of narrow minded racism and nationalism.

  Rachel Maddow

  Believe, Racism, People

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• To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

  Anton Chekhov

  Hero, Men, People

  Anton Chekhov (2009). “Selected Stories of Anton Chekov”, p.60, Modern Library

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• We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.

  Ai Weiwei

  War, Expression, Ignorant

  "Why I'll Stay Away From the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics". www.theguardian.com. August 07, 2008.

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