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I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on. -- Jim Courier
I'm very open-minded. -- Gabrielle Reece
It is increasingly important to be open-minded. -- Tucker Carlson
If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. -- Martha Stewart
Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out. -- Groucho Marx
I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that. -- James Denton
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -- Richard Dawkins
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few. -- Shunryu Suzuki
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. -- Charles Kettering
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. -- E. B. White
If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment. -- Tom Ford
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements. -- Thomas Cochrane
I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us. -- Sonia Braga
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. -- Nick Cave
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. -- Kevin Eubanks
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. -- Casey Affleck
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. -- Roger Ebert
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. -- Marcus Aurelius
Im open-minded. I dont consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. Ive 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. -- Dana Plato
I'd always thought of myself as an open-minded person. I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness. There's another kind, too, the kind that's willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them. That's the part I still need to work on. -- Kelley Armstrong
People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech. When I started writing, I thought [the language] was telling the story of this country: old people in a young nation, very religious, very conservative, very tight-assed, but also very anarchistic, very open-minded. It's all in the language, and that's one thing that doesn't translate. -- Etgar Keret
I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge. -- Sarah Polley
And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character. -- Bainbridge Colby
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. -- John Templeton
I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way. -- Idris Elba
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
Only open-minded deserves the truth. -- Aishwarya Shiva Pareek
You know, people aren't always the most open-minded. -- Miguel
African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded. -- Jill Scott
I've always embraced everything and been open-minded about what's ahead. -- Donna Air
Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded. -- David Bailey
I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about. -- Mason Cooley
You mustn't be so open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Susan Cheever
Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve. -- John Wooden
As long as you're open-minded you can learn stuff from anyone. -- Jake Shields
If you're brilliant and open-minded, you can start at the top. -- Uri Geller
In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded. -- Bong Joon-ho
I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters. -- Jason Reitman
There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out. -- Richard Dawkins
I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded. -- Kurt GÃ¶del
Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance. -- Maajid Nawaz
Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded. -- Chellie Pingree
You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out! -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The only prerequisites to leadership are that you remain positive, calm, and open-minded. -- Alexis Hunter
I'm very open to all different genres because I'm a very open-minded girl. -- Gal Gadot
We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions. -- Harri Holkeri
I simply want the music to to find its way to open-minded people. -- Jon Foreman
I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you. -- George W. Bush
Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system. -- Rupert Sheldrake
I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things. -- Marilyn Manson
The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Its about continuing to learn and being open-minded, don't ever think you know it all. -- Chris Weidman
We need to start asking ourselves, does religion make people narrow minded or open minded? -- Unarine Ramaru
Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say. -- A. J. McLean
If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you. -- Bryant H. McGill
Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans. --
I think Americans are good-hearted, open-minded people and race doesn't enter into this - at all. -- Cindy McCain
Damn. It's still the Midwest around here, no matter how many open-minded people you surround yourself with." -- Angela Johnson
Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow! -- Cassandra Clare
Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women. -- Christian Rudder
I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices. -- Adam Lambert
Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out. -- Tucker Max
The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it. -- Alexis Ohanian
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. -- Tony Campolo
I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours. -- Jewel
I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful. -- Bonnie Bassler
Life is full of lessons for the success-minded person who keeps his/her eyes open to what is going on. -- John Patrick Hickey
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
Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win. -- Arsene Wenger
I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. -- Suzanne Brockmann
If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can. -- Macaulay Culkin
One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours. -- Rob Sheffield
Being an actor, the less people know about my personal life, the more open-minded they can be about each role I play. -- Sean Hayes
You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt. -- Jeremy Stoppelman
Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open. -- Rick James
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. -- Christopher Hitchens
Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them. -- John Wayne
I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do. -- D.A. Wallach
There are certain moments in life of open-minded people...which really make them hard not to believe in the existence of heaven. -- Toba Beta
My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt. -- Kacey Musgraves
Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe. -- Dalai Lama
I've always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible and competitive. -- Stanley Druckenmiller
Adults envy the open-hearted and open-minded explorations of children; seeing their joy and curiosity, we pine for our own capacity for wide-eyed wonder. -- Gabor Mate
The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded. -- Amos Oz
The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist. -- Antoine Fuqua
There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind. -- Auberon Waugh
If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand. -- Paul Lansky
Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn. -- A.J. Darkholme
To grow, change, love, adapt, experience. We have to be open minded. This is the life and that's the way it should be lived. -- Shannon Leto
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. -- Kunal Nayyar
Grace is openness. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views, and allow divine grace to express itself through you. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
I don't have a type looks-wise, but all my exes have been funny, open-minded and ambitious. I can't stand men with no passion in life. -- Kathryn Prescott
I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas. -- Ziggy Marley
I work in both very strict conditions and very loose, more open-minded conditions in advertising, and Nike is by far the most open-minded of all. -- Casey Neistat
Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies. -- Byron Katie
Intelligence is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn, and courage in readjustment. -- John Dewey
Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person. -- Daniel Gilbert
With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or bamboozled. -- Robert Genn
Honestly, Americans are more open-minded and have the patience and the time for new types of music. In Australia and New Zealand, you must earn your place. -- Gin Wigmore
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works. -- Franz Grillparzer
Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening. -- A.J. Darkholme
Let's be honest, for a lot of well meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear. -- Hillary Clinton
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. -- Johnny Galecki
Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a chance.' So they let him operate. -- Paul Douglas
I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading. -- Russell Simmons
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. -- Ryan Holmes
If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructores but form the very life experience itself. -- Haile Selassie
We want to be open-minded enough to accept radial new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out. -- Michael Shermer
Warner Bros. is really open-minded, as far as studios go, when it comes to the types of movies they'll entertain, even with animated movies. It's a great place to be. -- Doug Sweetland
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. -- Vivek Wadhwa
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
It takes an open minded individual to look beyond a disability, and see, that ability has so much more to offer,than the limitations society tries to place upon them. -- Robert M. Hensel
I was an atheist, I was open-minded, and I began to read in that direction, in the direction of Islam, and everything that I read about it appealed to me. -- Malcolm X
I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay. -- Sheri S. Tepper
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
Can we go back to the part about Moroi girls hanging out in LA?" asked Adrian hopefully. "Can you direct me to some of the"¦oh, let's say, more open-minded ones? -- Richelle Mead
I guess if everything went tits up, having no work whatsoever, obviously you have to do something else. At the moment I don't see myself quitting, but I'm open minded about it. -- Max Irons

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