Grace Lee Boggs Quotes

Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.

What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

I will adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

We have to open our minds and be ready for the changes.

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.

The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.

I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

When people ask me if I'm liberal or conservative, I say, 'Yeah.' I'm both of them. To be a liberal means to be open-minded and generous and open to new ideas. And to be conservative means to hold onto things that are important, things that shouldn't be cast aside.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

I learnt to always keep my mind open to new ideas and looked at each new assignment as an opportunity to learn and prove myself.

The only advice I would give young guys is to keep your ears and eyes open. Never see yourself as a finished product.

I would say that being open to new things is kind of vital in this line of work, if not all lines of work, and being prepared to embrace the challenge of the new thing is something I want in my life until the day it's over.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

I think a lot of adults are kind of set in their ways. My mom is always changing. She's excited to learn.

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.

Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. It's not something I fight at all.

I have grown a lot in this area, but I used to be quite rigid and found it difficult to accept change.

I am always open to learning. I am always open to adapting myself to a new role and a new position.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.