Priyamvada Natarajan Quotes

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they're not going to teach each other about the history of democracy, or the importance of taking their voices into the public sphere to create social change.

The good news is, being a digital citizen comes naturally to many of us once we get the opportunity - human beings have been taking things apart and putting them back together throughout history.

You need to be open and explore while heading where you want to go. You can never be too in love with your own ideas. If you can remember every idea that is yours in a script, as opposed to someone else's, then something is wrong.

When you build your network, keep yourself open to new ideas, concepts, and theories. Some of them may even contradict and challenge long-held points of view. This isn't beneficial only to someone in my profession, but to every line of work.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go with all this schooling, but I'm willing that it be better than my dogmatic vision of it all.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities.

I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

People who work with me say I have a four-step response to new ideas: rejection, reconsideration, acceptance, ownership. I need to listen more patiently.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.