Quotes About Keeping An Open Mind

#1. There are still people who essentially live in intellectual silos and either read Mother Jones or watch Fox News, based on their worldview. And they pick information out that reinforces it rather than keeping an open mind.

Andrew Revkin

#2. I'm having fun with what I'm doing but I'd never categorically say no to something because it's not horror. I'm keeping an open mind.

Oren Peli

#3. Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.

Joel Madden

#4. That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.

Clint Eastwood

#5. Keeping an open mind is a virtue - but, as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open that your brains fall out.

Carl Sagan

#6. There's an importance of keeping an open mind. The brain is programmed to protect us, and that can mean imposing limits on what it thinks we can or should do. Constantly push at those limits, because the brain can be way too cautious.

Chrissie Wellington

#7. Keeping an open mind is always important.

Chris Hemsworth

#8. I'm keeping an open mind as always, because that's what you have to do.

Amber Heard

#9. 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

#10. Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, man's life is cheap as beast's.

William Shakespeare

#11. Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

Shunryu Suzuki

#12. 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

#13. When you prepare for something, you can then play around; you're not as worried about remembering your lines because you already know them so well. That's where you can find the freedom. So I'm all about prep work.

Krysten Ritter

#14. Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

Alice Foote MacDougall

#15. It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.

Spencer Tracy

#16. Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#17. My affairs are in the keeping of Infinite Wisdom. I am guided by Divine Intelligence. The activity of Spirit inspires my mind and flows through my actions. Life lies open to me, rich, full and abundant.

Ernest Holmes

#18. Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential.

Michael J. Gelb

#19. [Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.

Sarah Moon

#20. There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.

Sue Grafton

#21. An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.

Alfred North Whitehead

#22. I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse: the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Rabih Alameddine

#23. No separation of distance; no separation of time; no separation of any kind need lessen compassion.

Zechariah Barrett

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Solving mysteries is as much about having an open mind as keeping your eyes open. Isn't it the same in science?

Menna Van Praag

#27. Not prejudging things, listening to what's going on, keeping your ears, heart, and mind open.

Haruki Murakami

#28. 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

#29. I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.

James Brown

#30. It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

George Voinovich

#31. I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.

Rob Corddry

#32. I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.

Greg Wise