Quotes with minded

  • Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
  • My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
  • Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
  • We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
  • Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
  • As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.
  • People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
  • The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
  • ''If everybody minded their own business,'' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ''the world would go round a deal faster than it does.''
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  • Bernard Levin His absent-minded scientist, Dr. Strabismus (whom God Preserve) of Utrecht, had to his credit a list of inventions that included 'a leather grape', 'a revolving wheelbarrow', 'a hollow glass walking stick for keeping very small flannel shirts in...
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • Charles Sumner I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
    Charles Sumner
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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  • Francis Bacon To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Paul Goodman When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Lewis Carroll ''If everybody minded their own business,'' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ''the world would go round a deal faster than it does.''
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Robert Frost A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • C. S. Forester Although she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sawyer could see that her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Bainbridge Colby 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
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Hoff As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • A. J. McLean Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Bill Engvall Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper. Just how rapidly are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play Beat the Clock in the thicket.
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    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Will Rogers Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bernard Werber Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Plutarch Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Casey Affleck For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Bob Brown Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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