Ivan Turgenev Quotes

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

There is nothing more dangerous than a person with only one right answer.

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.

I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.

Everybody's got a lot to their personalities. You're not just one element. There are some days you want something that can be a bit stricter or a bit more disciplined or something a bit more floaty and a bit freer.

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.

I think some people need the assurance of people around them and ideas worked out in advance. I think it keeps me an edge that to be creative on the spot. You have to think of things to do when you meet people. You limit your choices from the beginning. So I don't bring a lot of lenses, cameras, all these elements that can help the picture to a shooting. You confine yourself to, say, one room and you just make it work. You become very creative in that little space. You have left a lot of other options out of the game.

There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out.

I like the not knowing of what the next job is.

Consistency is the defense of a small mind

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore.

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

I have some friends that just stick to the same criteria over and over again not realizing there are lots of other kinds of people and that may be what you like. People get in that mindset and put their blinders on.

Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.