Lynsey Addario Quotes

My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.

It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

When you're out in the field and spending time in these different places around the world, humility is one of the most important assets that will serve you well.

We have never wrapped ourselves up in our own world thinking we are the only people who know what is doing. We listen to other things and see what we would like and what would suit us.

We, as a society, need to be open-minded.

Growing up, my dad was the ultimate person for open-mindedness.

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.

My position is that you've got to accommodate everything. I don't morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate.

The truth is I try to take people as I find them.

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

You don't need to push your beliefs onto other people!

If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.

One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process.

Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.

What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.