Open Minded Quotes - Page 7

• You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Love Is, Alaska

  "Time" magazine, June 26, 1950.

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• Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done.

  Ben Harper

  Writing, Knowing, Discipline

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• The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless quite intriguing.... Many of the high-quality sighting reports involve certain objective aspects, which, to an open-minded bystander, are quite impressive.

  Peter Davenport

  Bystanders, Data, Quality

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• People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up, nothing’s ever gonna work out right”, that’s cynicism. But skepticism is, “you’re presented with evidence and you do your best to draw conclusions based on that”. So, as the saying goes, Bill Nye, do you believe in ghosts? No. However, I would love to see one. Bring it on. I’m open minded to the idea, but the more I look into it in a skeptical frame of thinking, the less likely it seems.

  Bill Nye

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Energy, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.141, A&C Black

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• Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

  Heraclitus

  Fire, Openness, Presumption

  Heraclitus of Ephesus (2017). “Heraclitus on the two antithetical forces in life: Interdependent and mutually convertible aspects of One Cause”, p.22, Philaletheians UK

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• I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

  Akio Morita

  Jobs, Creativity, Responsibility

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• When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as my mind might wish.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Sleep, Night, Mind

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• Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This leads immediately in his mind to the prediction of new phenomena which may one day be verified by experiment.

  Henri Poincare

  Mind, One Day, Principles

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• We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.

  Marcel Proust

  Believe, States, Openness

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1240, Wordsworth Editions

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• The mainstream perception that conservatives are close-minded and dogmatic while liberals are open-minded and free-thinking has it almost exactly backward. Liberal dogma is settled: The government should do good, where it can, whenever it can. That is President Obama's idea of pragmatism and bipartisanship: He's open to all ideas, from either side of the aisle, about how best to expand government and get the state more involved in our lives.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Thinking, Government, Ideas

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• Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Thinking

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• Science progresses not because scientists as a whole are passionately open-minded but because different scientists are passionately closed-minded about different things.

  Henry H. Bauer

  Science, Progress, Different

  Henry H. Bauer (1994). “Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method”, p.76, University of Illinois Press

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• You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Inspiration, Nimble, Dependent

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• Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.

  Ellen Lupton

  Art, Interesting Situations, Design

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students”, p.219, Chronicle Books

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• We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.

  John Cleese

  Humorous, Creativity, Two

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• LSD wanted to tell me something. It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.

  Albert Hofmann

  Eye, Joy, Miracle

  "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.

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• Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It's there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.

  Dana Reeve

  Inspiration, Grateful, Optimistic

  Commencement Address at Middlebury College, May 23, 2004.

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• When you’re married to Miranda Lambert, you've gotta give her her room because she’s a powerful force. I think it’s more about just listening and understanding who she is and what her insecurities may be and how to approach our marriage as an open minded listener and a shoulder to lean on.

  Blake Shelton

  Powerful, Thinking, Giving

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• Christoph Waltz is stunning, an insanely nice guy. He is not only a ridiculously good actor, he’s also funny, helpful & a good colleague. I like his work ethic. I mean, the guy has won an Oscar and despite that he is receptive, open-minded & not the least bit snooty. Reese Witherspoon is the same. It may be the nicest cast that I have worked with yet.

  Robert Pattinson

  Nice, Mean, Work Ethic

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• We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

  Timothy Leary

  Giving, Grandparent, Brain

  "Rolling Stone" Twentieth Anniversary Issue, 1987.

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• Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.

  Richard Bach

  Funny, Beautiful, Wise

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• We are so lucky to be surrounded by such open minded, well traveled individuals. Everyone has a different story and journey that we can learn from. We get to express ourselves in art and it can be crazy, but that’s the beauty of it. A mixture of different people and personalities coming together to make one image. Our jobs aren’t easy but there is nothing I’d rather do.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Art, Jobs, Crazy

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• The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

  Joseph Campbell

  People, Listening, World

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.181, Anchor

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• I think Americans are good-hearted, open-minded people and race doesn't enter into this - at all.

  Cindy McCain

  Thinking, Race, People

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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