Top 100 Mind Open Quotes
#1. Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.
Jonah Lehrer
#2. She would not risk to grow so fond of her home that it was a pain to leave it; she preferred to remain a wayfarer, sauntering through life with a heart keen to detect beauty, and a mind, open and unbiased, ready to laugh at the absurd.
W. Somerset Maugham
#3. A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. I now know that God has a plan for each of us. The thing is to find out what it is. How? Through prayer, through keeping your mind open, and trough the circumstances of daily life and the people you meet.
Peggy Noonan
#5. Not prejudging things, listening to what's going on, keeping your ears, heart, and mind open.
Haruki Murakami
#6. Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.
Ed Sheeran
#7. you should never underestimate the power of keeping your mind open to new information. If you're always receptive, you could gain just that piece of the puzzle you need, when you're least expecting it.
Bryan Dodge
#8. Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
Jack Kornfield
#9. Keeping the mind open to new ideas, not being too anxious about success, putting 100% effort and meditation is the formula for entrepreneurs.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#10. You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.
Patricia Rae
#11. I try not to listen to other music. I have to keep my mind open for what's coming in as a songwriter. If I go into the gas station and pay for gas, whatever song was playing when I was in there is in my head for the next few days and I can't change the channel.
Mark Farner
#12. You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.
Chuck Jones
#13. I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was one of the authors who really blew my mind open to all sorts of weird dark and twisted places.
Ezra Miller
#14. Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.
Dale Carnegie
#15. You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.
Yanni
#16. My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.
Ram Dass
#17. Keep your heart and mind open to allow things to come in.
Debasish Mridha
#18. Keep your eyes and your mind open. Don't be blinded by filters like fear, uncertainty, pessimism and negativity.
Carlos Wallace
#19. I had to learn how to motivate myself and others; to give inspiration as well as keep pathways in my mind open so inspiration could find me.
Giles Long
#20. You can keep your mind open and use your imagination and be creative even when you're older. For kids, I definitely think keeping your mind open and using your imagination and being able to play pretend and that it's okay.
AnnaSophia Robb
#21. LIBERAL, n. A man with his mind open at both ends.
Colin Falconer
#22. I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a philosophy that believes you shouldn't have preconceived notions - that you don't need a gimmick. That you should just photograph what you react to - what you see.
Elliott Erwitt
#23. Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.
Werner Herzog
#24. Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#25. Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'
Amy Poehler
#26. A mind with questions is a mind open to understanding.
Colleen Houck
#27. I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
Adam Osborne
#28. If the Universe did procreate, it must be the mother of this strength within me ever expanding beyond my carnal limitations. Every mind open, must be my sibling.
Dew Platt
#29. Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.
Jay Maisel
#30. I'll just try to keep my mind open to whatever comes my way.
McCoy Tyner
#31. Life can't give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms.
Louise Hay
#32. Each one of you carries the potential to blossom like flowers. When you blossom, petals of your mind open and the fragrance spread far and near.
Banani Ray
#33. I always keep my mind open. For me, a mind has to work like like a parachute, works only if it's open.
Rickson Gracie
#34. Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.
Michael J. Gelb
#35. Always keep your mind open to opportunity and it will come calling.
Jack Canfield
#36. If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#38. And the day inevitably comes when the scrapbook of summer, smeared with ice cream slurps and sweat stains, gives way to that new clean white notebook, spine unbroken, begging to be smudged with the enthusiasm of a number two pencil and a mind open to the possibilities.
Toni Sorenson
#39. Keep your mind open; challenge yourself before you challenge others.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
Rachael Ray
#41. Empty your heart, my kitten. Empty your mind. Open your eyes. Who do you see?
C.D. Reiss
#42. You never knew when God would send you just what you needed, sometimes even when you didn't realize you were missing anything in the first place. You just had to keep your eyes-and mind-open to the possibilities.
Mia Ross
#43. Your world is reborn each day... And you are allowed to start over, at least in spirit, choosing your way with a beginners mind. Open wide the doors and windows, or close them and sit by the fire. But wherever you are, make room for the new, the uncertain, the mystery.. and love...
Jack Kornfield
#44. I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
P.J. Harvey
#45. Keep the window of the mind open to let the fresh thoughts come in like fresh air.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Keep your heart open for love; and your mind open for innovative ideas.
Debasish Mridha
#47. I've learned to keep my mind open to ideas from any source.
Nicholas Sparks
#48. Knowing that wishes don't always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open, there's a really good chance they will manifest in some way.
Alyson Noel
#49. The art of living ... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
Alan W. Watts
#50. There are just lots of possibilities in the world ... I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.
Rachel Cohn
#51. Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.
Shunryu Suzuki
#52. A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#53. I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
Viggo Mortensen
#54. Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller's. She found thoughts dull that suggest that men are superior to animals or plants.
John Cage
#55. We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.
Horace Silver
#56. Please maintain an open mind while exploring the depth and wealth of wisdom that is available through the practice of yoga. You may soon come to see the Union of all religions and philosophies if you maintain an open mind and heart.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#57. 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.
Anthony Bourdain
#58. You are
What you are looking for
In fragmented mirrors
Stop looking
Be Still
End the mind-noise
Silence Now
Eyes shut
Heart wide-open
And then you see
Everything!
Gabriel Iqbal
#59. I am safe and secure. I exhale any anxiety and inhale calm. As my world expands so do my heart and mind. I am willing to stay open and accept all the miracles and abundance the universe has to offer me.
Kris Carr
#60. Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all!
Betty White
#61. A movie should entertain you in a way that will also open your mind. I think movies are tools to enrich your experience.
Hany Abu-Assad
#62. Leaving your ears open to the suggestions of others only closes the mind's eye, thereby creating a type of spiritual glaucoma.
Janeane Garofalo
#63. In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open ... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.
Richard Davidson
#64. My mind is a lock pick always looking for another door to open. I often find those doors by exploring minds of others ...
Hewitt E. Moore
#65. Hey, did you
"
"Read your mind?" Osiris shrugged. "It's like an open book full of blank pages. Wasn't very hard.
Rachel Firasek
#66. Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science.
Toba Beta
#67. The will to love, the desire to help, and an open mind with gratitude can unlock the door to eternal happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#68. I'm sure the Industry has been bad to you. I'm sure you have every right to hate it. Keep an open mind however. So long as you do, you might find it's not quite as despicable as you imagine.
Rose Foster
#69. Love and ruin are explained with letters of the alphabet.
The power of the word can describe the glory of the universe. It only requires an open mind and heart.
J.R. Ortiz
#71. Open your eyes
Open your ears
Open your mind
Open your heart
They are your portals to joy
Lisa Cypers Kamen
#72. Learn to read deeply. It will slowly open your mind's eye, and will be able to see the secret beauty of the universe and understand its deeper essence.
Debasish Mridha
#73. Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.
Hemant Mehta
#74. Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.
Rheta Childe Dorr
#75. With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.
Conor Oberst
#76. The human mind is as naturally sensitive to arguments as the eye is to colors. (There may be some people who are argument-blind!) But the eye will not see if it is not kept open, and the mind will not follow an argument if it is not awake.
Mortimer J. Adler
#77. Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.
Tariq Ramadan
#78. I want to show the world that it is possible. It's possible to remember your self. To open your mind. To open your heart. To open your creativity. To live with less, but to live well.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#79. I make records with an open mind, I always have.
Tony Visconti
#80. I am a late starter. I like to go on into the night when it's quiet and everything has shut down. I find that's where music and minds open in the dark.
Shelby Lynne
#81. The challenge is, well, there's a huge challenge, which is when you're improvising, you're meant to sort of clear your mind completely, just be open and funny, and paying, you know, paying attention.
Brian Henson
#82. Syldor was not a land of oppressive rules, roles, and labels. Here, love and power were open to, for, and between all; woman or man, rich or poor. What mattered was the sharpness of your mind, the speed of your blade, and the heat of your touch.
Natalia Marx
#83. In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.
Matthew Kelly
#84. Out of sight is out of mind. The closer your hives are to your residence the better. Beginners need colonies nearby so they can visit them often. Casual visits are important even if you don't open the hives. You can learn much simply by observing the entrance.
Richard E. Bonney
#85. Whether you practice a traditional religion or a universal version of spirituality, it is necessary to keep an open mind for learning and growing.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#86. I am with you always. You just have to find me by opening your inner eyes and closing your egocentric mind.
Debasish Mridha
#87. Her mind emptied of everything but the gusting wind and how fragile Wolf looked in that heartbeat, like one movement could break him open.
Marissa Meyer
#88. Freedom is valued in a culture that wants to encourage dissent and to stimulate originality and independence. It belongs to a society which is open to change, and which esteems the agent of change, the individual, above its own peace of mind.
Jacob Bronowski
#89. A writer's thoughts can act as an Aladdin's lamp, which can enlighten and open the mind of a reader, by showing opportunities and beauties of life.
Debasish Mridha
#90. A wise walker will set out early, keeping an open mind on how far to travel, allowing each day's adventure to evolve.
John Litwinovich
#91. If you always find within, you will never feel without.
Open your mind to what you feel is true, or else someone will open your mind for you, to what they want you to know is true.
Arnie M. Gonzalez
#93. You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?
Bobby Womack
#94. Every time you open up your heart in obedience to God and worship Him with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul, our beautiful Lord responds with His magnificent presence.
Darlene Zschech
#95. We were created for intimacy, to connect with someone with heart, soul, and mind. Intimacy occurs when we are open, vulnerable, and honest, for these qualities help us to be close to each other.
Henry Cloud
#97. The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.
George Bernard Shaw
#98. Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task ... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules.
Sarah Fielding
#100. Mindfulness practice begins to open up everything. We open our mind to memories, to emotions, to different sensations in the body. In meditation this happens in a very organic way, because we are not searching, we are not pulling or probing, we are just sitting and watching.
Joseph Goldstein
