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• Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.

  Adyashanti

  Thinking, Grace, May

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.10, Sounds True

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• I think when people say they dread going into work on Monday morning, it's because they know they are leaving a piece of themselves at home. Why not see what happens when you challenge your employees to bring all of their talents to their job and reward them not for doing it just like everyone else, but for pushing the envelope, being adventurous, creative, and open-minded, and trying new things?

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, Monday, Morning

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.

  Arsene Wenger

  Stupid, Winning, Men

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• Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me, and spoke with a voice that was all rage and envy. Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie until you have made one, and do not dismiss a person until you have met them. It is a f@*$%load of work to be open-minded and generous and understanding and forgiving and accepting, but Christ, that is what matters. What matters is saying yes.

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Creativity, What Matters

  "Are you taking any steps to keep shit real? Dave Eggers on 'Selling Out'" by Caterina Fake, www.businessinsider.com. December 23, 2013.

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

  David Bailey

  Thinking, Knowing, Knowing More

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• The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Tolerance, Action, Broads

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• Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded in providing a full range of quality media would be a failure to serve the breadth and depth of the communities we live in.

  Lachlan Murdoch

  Art, Intelligent, Media

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• America, you know, they always separate people because of race. They've been able to convince, 'The niggers are coming.' You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people. Not only because there are more mixes of people, but because people are more open-minded about each other. So I think in the future, America has a great, great opportunity, and mostly because of hip-hop.

  Russell Simmons

  Opportunity, Thinking, Race

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• The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded?'

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Boys, Yale

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 1, 1999.

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• There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Business, Believe

  "The Real Romance in the Stars". www.independent.co.uk. December 31, 1995.

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• Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn't want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I'd never get out again.

  Emma Watson

  Boyfriend, Kissing, Feminism

  "Emma Watson British GQ Cover Is Actress’ Sexiest Yet" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.

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• What's sad is that an 80-year-old grandpa has to be the open-minded one. Old people aren't old because of their age, but because of what's in their heads. They are horrified at this, but they aren't horrified at what's happening in the streets?

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Humble, Years

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• Flexibility - In all aspects of life, the person with the most varied responses 'wins'.

  Kelly Perdew

  Winning, Aspect, Response

  Kelly Perdew (2013). “Take Command: 10 Leadership Principles I Learned in the Military and put to Wrok for Donald Trump”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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• Distinguish open-minded people from closed-minded people. Open-minded people seek to learn by asking questions; they realize that what they know is little in relation to what there is to know and recognize that they might be wrong. Closed-minded people always tell you what they know, even if they know hardly anything about the subject being discussed. They are typically made uncomfortable by being around those who know a lot more about a subject, unlike open-minded people who are thrilled by such company.

  Ray Dalio

  Asking Questions, People, Littles

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• I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

  Adam Lambert

  Thinking, Choices, Might

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• Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

  Malcolm X

  Intelligent, Reality, Men

  Letter written following his Hajj, 1964.

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• The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mind, Literature, Mouths

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• When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Mother, Children, Attitude

  "The World According to Vice". Interview with Bruce Labruce, November 4, 2010.

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• 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.

  Jason Reitman

  Giving, Messages, Answers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Teacher, Religious

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• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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

  Jason Reitman

  Character, Want, Audience

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

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Judgmental

  "The Real Gwyneth" by Justine Picardie, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 1, 2012.

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• My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.

  Michelle Obama

  White, Trying, Matter

  "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community". Senior thesis, Princeton University, p. 14-15, 1985.

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• Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Views, Opposites, People

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