Richard Donner Quotes

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.

What we say is an opinion it's the best that we can reach, if anybody can bring a better opinion we will accept it.

I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

Put your choices in perspective.

I'm kind of old to change. But if somebody were to come to me and say, 'You know what, Valerie? I think if you were to do this it would be more helpful,' of course I would listen to that.

The problem is most people in the world can't take criticism.

Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.

It's important to have people who will question you occasionally.

Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?

I spend a lot of time bathing in a glow of consensus, but you have to be willing to say something to people who might not agree with you and take the consequences of what follows.

Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.

I think it's important to view the issues on the broadest possible reference plane. In fact, if you firmly believe in any issue, I urge you to read the opposite of it. Most of the time, it'll merely reinforce your original beliefs, but on the rare occasion, it might change your mind.

I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

I try not to be overly analytical.