Parker Palmer Quotes

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

Invite people into your life who don't look or act like you. You might find they challenge your assumptions and make you grow.

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

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

On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.

Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.

I stay close to my identity - that's something I find important - but I don't completely shut myself off from the outside world.

It's a great opportunity when one gets something new to grasp, and I feel we should just grab it.

I am always interested in an opportunity to learn something.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.

Even if you’re not yet an entrepreneur, you can be entrepreneurial in everything you do. If you view each stop as an opportunity to learn something, there is always something you will take away from that experience.

Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us.

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

I think it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in other parts of the world; you come up with a better judgment. I'm not meaning that literally you can only do that and not go to school at all but in terms of enrichment of a personality I think it's a fabulous thing.

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Such an opening-up is the most practical of all activities.

I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.

You have to be willing - you have strong ideas, you have strong views, but you have to be willing also to look at experience.

I need advice and opinion-honest opinion. I want to get better. Why go around with blinkers on?

I'm thankful for some of bad experiences I've had. They helped me with the way I view people and see them for who they really are.

Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them, pulling them out of the delusion of non authenticity, enabling them to become aware of their true possibilities.

Embrace change as an opportunity to learn, to improve, to make a difference in others' lives as well as in your own. Have the courage to challenge the status quo. Remember that preparation and ambition in combination with opportunity equals success. And have fun!