Charles de Lint Quotes

You've got to keep an open mind.

I am a person always with an open mind.

I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind

We strive always to have a beginner's mind.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.

Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.

Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.

You have to get a little untrapped from too much prior knowledge.

I keep an open mind.

I'm open-minded and never think I know everything. I actually feel like I know nothing, and that allows me to learn on a different level.

One thing I've learned is that you have to be open-minded.

You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of childlike second-level innocence to bear upon all situations, if you are going to be of use and you are going to really learn from the situation or the people.

I'm keeping an open mind as always, because that's what you have to do.

Any year that you don't destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.

Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing.

No one ever died from an open mind.

Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

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

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.