Bits and pieces Quote by John Barnes

I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.

— Tim Gunn

You will find it easier to accept contrary views, knowing that you are not defined by anything or anyone external to yourself.

— Wayne Dyer

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

— Marilynne Robinson

I learned to have the patience to listen when people put forward their views, even if I think those views are wrong. You can't…

— Nelson Mandela

I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is…

— Jonah Lehrer

I do not allow others to influence my thinking unless it is positive or uplifting.

— Louise Hay

In my line of work, I sometimes ask for peoples opinions on a subject. When they give it to me, I throw it out…

— Cellan Slarcas

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and…

— Marcus Aurelius

I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

— Alan Dershowitz

I try to approach things in a fair-minded way.

— Colin Allred

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

— Martin Luther King, Jr