My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don’t put me in danger.
An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.
Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.
If you are open-minded and you let the universe come in, you never know where things might go.
I’m constantly trying to grow as a musician, so when I listen to different things, I’m like, ‘That’d be cool to do something like that,’ and I try to keep myself open-minded.
Being an actor, the less people know about my personal life, the more open-minded they can be about each role I play.
I would consider myself a perfectionist, yeah. I don’t think that is always that helpful, either. Sometimes it’s good to be a little more open-minded; you can overthink things when things are actually fine, and it’s that moment that you lose it. Looking back, sometimes I’ve made mistakes from being a perfectionist.
By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
Ranchi is a much better place than Mumbai or any other big city in the country. People here are simple and open-minded.
Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.
I’m open-minded. I don’t consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I’ve had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.
Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
I’m very open-minded.
With ‘Acid Rap,’ I allowed myself to be really open-minded and free with who I allowed into my musical space. I wanted to make a cohesive product, but I also just want to make a bunch of dope songs inspired by whatever sounds I liked.
I grew up in the 1970s. It was a super open-minded time. I was taught through my parents and TV that everything was possible. You’d see cartoons where superheroes would fly. I always wanted to do these things.
I am under no illusion that yoga is the solution to all issues! That’s why I am a very open-minded yogi.
My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
I do feel very strongly about my values and principles, but at the end of day I’m open-minded and I enjoy listening to other people’s agendas.
While it’s important to be open-minded, we don’t have to be naive. Although Iran claims they are developing nuclear capability only for peaceful purposes, it’s most difficult to believe them when taking a step back to assess the big picture of Iran’s threats and actions.
David Harrington, who’s the violinist and founder of Kronos, is a super open-minded and adventurous guy.
Be open-minded and available to everything and not just saying it’s Jesus Christ or bust. So much of the world will do that. I find it troubling… Don’t be dogmatic.
One of my strengths over the years is to be open-minded.
An artist’s duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
I am open-minded guy.
I’m massively open-minded to pretty much anything.
Young people – and skaters – are very, very open-minded.
I think people in theater are pretty open-minded and objective about the talent and what they can bring to the story they want to tell.
Kids and just young people in general are usually a lot more, I guess, open-minded to change. Especially when you’re really little in elementary school, you don’t expect a lot of things from people, so if somebody says, ‘I’m switching genders,’ you’re just sort of like, ‘OK, that’s new. But cool.’
My fans are so open-minded and trust that whatever I’m doing, in whatever moment of time, is the most accurate form of expression that I have to offer them. There are no expectations – only a journey which we all share together.
In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It’s not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character’s back-story.
People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.
I always thought my big brother was the coolest. We were very close when I was young, and we still are in many ways! He was a very open-minded, urban guy with an outdoorsy edge. He is mostly responsible for exposing me to art and culture.
I always set out to be open-minded and open-hearted in everything I do.
The Muslim world is portrayed as a monolith that is consistently scary and negative, and as much as you can be an open-minded person, if the only diet of information you get is scary images of men in beards, that starts to play on you. But you come to find out that the Muslim world is not a monolith.
By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.
I like a guy that can make me laugh and be open-minded, who is active and loves travelling.
I want someone who is open-minded, dedicated to whatever she is doing and isn’t afraid to say I love you. As for looks, she shouldn’t have three heads. I want a regular human being.
My parents are really open-minded, but with their own daughter, it’s not the same thing.
My parents are pretty open-minded.
There are a number of traits that combine to create entrepreneurial potential. We find that openness coordinates very well with successful entrepreneurs. The more open-minded you are, the more you see the world as it actually is. The more closed-minded, the more you see the world as you want it to be.
My model for Kirk was Horatio Hornblower from the C.S. Forester sea stories. Shatner was open-minded about science fiction and a marvelous choice.
I’ve always embraced everything and been open-minded about what’s ahead.
Marriage was coined at a time when people died when they were 30. That stability would be nice, and I am definitely open-minded about it, but I don’t need it in that way some women do.
Minneapolis just embraced me. There are a lot of weirdos here. It’s awesome, because I’m a weirdo. Thankfully, the city embraced me with open arms. A lot about Minneapolis helped carve my musicality and open my eyes. The whole town is so open-minded compared to like, you know, Texas.
One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader’s need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.
People just need to be open-minded enough to accept the game for what it is. If you don’t want to see it, then you’re never going to appreciate it, which is fine; it’s your choice. But we appreciate not being slated in the meantime.
The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.
If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
Strategy is, at some level, the ability to predict what’s going to happen, but it’s also about understanding the context in which it is being formulated. And then you have to be open-minded to the fact that you’re not going to get it right at the very beginning.
I think my fans are much more open-minded than some other bands’ fan bases are.
I must be honest here; I don’t think there’s such a thing as ‘unconventional’ when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They’ll read anything.
I’d like to think my company HootSuite is anything but a stodgy old-boys’ club. As a social media company, our employees are by and large young, progressive and open-minded.
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.
Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
We, as a society, need to be open-minded.
Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them.
Trans-dating is hardcore, and it’s really scary. And that’s coming from me, someone who couldn’t be dating in a more open-minded Manhattan pool of artsy boys and creative folk. Not saying it all sucks. I’m just saying it’s not easy.
When you’re a kid, you’re not as corrupted by the world at large. You’re not corrupted by prejudices. You’re much more open-minded. Much more interested in the world around you. ‘Sweet Tooth’ is about the world returning to that kind of place.
