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If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.
Haile Selassie
If you have an expansive outlook and are prepared to acquire knowledge, there are countless lessons that can be gleaned not just from textbooks and teachers but also from life itself.
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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
'Rarely do those who call themselves progressive exhibit true open-mindedness.... They will try to overpower and censure you if your opinion varies from their own.'
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I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded.
Kurt Gödel
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Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.
Groucho Marx
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Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
Martha Stewart
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The only prerequisites to leadership are that you remain positive, calm, and open-minded.
Alexis Hunter
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The reason a person is a republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that's science - that's neuroscience. You cannot be well adjusted, open-minded, pluralistic, enlightened and be a republican.
Janeane Garofalo
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Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
Heraclitus
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The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.
Sathya Sai Baba
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I'm very open to all different genres because I'm a very open-minded girl.
Gal Gadot
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Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
Rupert Sheldrake
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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
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We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
Marcel Proust
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If you're brilliant and open-minded, you can start at the top.
Uri Geller
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A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.
Will Rogers
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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
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Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.
Beth Moore
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Flexibility - In all aspects of life, the person with the most varied responses 'wins'.
Kelly Perdew
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If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
Tom Ford
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You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
Susan Cheever
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Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve.
John Wooden
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For me, when I have the opportunity to exhibit abroad, I feel that the public understands some points I have raised and are open-minded and make an effort to understand my work, but there are still certain things that remain inaccessible.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
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Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
A. J. McLean
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Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads,
or you shall learn nothing.
Thomas Huxley
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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.
George W. Crane
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In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.
Bong Joon-ho
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Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!
Cassandra Clare
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I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.
James Denton
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I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.
Marilyn Manson
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I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.
Mason Cooley
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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
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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
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If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.
Bryant H. McGill
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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
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...the Rule of Agreement reminds you to “respect what your partner has created” and to at least start from an open-minded place. Start with a YES and see where that takes you.
Tina Fey
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I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.
Jason Reitman
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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
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My open mindedness is a product of where I came from. When you work in labor relations for a long part of your career you have to embrace the idea that an exchange of ideas can produce creative solutions.
Rob Manfred
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Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.
Christian Rudder
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I don't know Condoleezza Rice personally. I'm sure she's a nice lady, and I'm sure she plays the piano well. But she was a very bad National Security Adviser. The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of policy and open minded in internal debates.
Seymour Hersh
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Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
Will Rogers
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I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.
George W. Bush
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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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Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.
Peter James
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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