A Curious Mind Quotes

“WE ARE ALL TRAPPED in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“Manners are really the basis for how we treat other people—manners are born out of compassion, empathy, the “golden rule.” Manners are, quite simply, making people feel welcome, comfortable, and respected.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“You can’t search for the answer to questions that haven’t been asked yet. And you can’t Google a new idea. The Internet can only tell us what we already know.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“You can’t get anything done trying to absorb and neutralize everyone else’s criticisms.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” —Albert Einstein1”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“Curiosity—asking questions—isn’t just a way of understanding the world. It’s a way of changing it.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“Life isn’t about finding the answers, it’s about asking the questions.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will; indeed, it has led many people into dangers which mere physical courage would shudder away from, for hunger and love and curiosity are the great impelling forces of life.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“Nothing unleashes curiosity in an audience like good storytelling. Nothing inspires storytelling, in turn, like the results of curiosity.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“Curiosity is the tool that sparks creativity. Curiosity is the technique that gets to innovation.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“You’re born curious, and no matter how much battering your curiosity has taken, it’s standing by, ready to be awakened.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“possible. I’ve discovered that even when you’re in charge, you are often much more effective asking questions than giving orders.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“The only way to persevere is to have the capacity to calmly separate yourself from what is being done to you.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“Democracy requires accountability. In fact, accountability is the very point of democracy—to understand what needs to be done in the community, to discuss it, to weigh the options, to make decisions, and then to assess whether those decisions were right and hold the people who made the decisions accountable for them.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“Questions create a mind-set of innovation and creativity. Curiosity presumes that there might be something new out there. Curiosity presumes that there might be something outside our own experience out there. Curiosity allows the possibility that the way we’re doing it now isn’t the only way, or even the best way.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we are up for grabs for the next charlatan—political or religious—who comes ambling along.” —Carl Sagan”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“No one today ever says anything bad about curiosity, directly. But if you pay attention, curiosity isn’t really celebrated and cultivated, it isn’t protected and encouraged. It’s not just that curiosity is inconvenient. Curiosity can be dangerous. Curiosity isn’t just impertinent, it’s insurgent. It’s revolutionary.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“see the world through other people’s eyes,”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“More than intelligence or persistence or connections, curiosity has allowed me to live the life I wanted.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“I’ve discovered that even when you’re in charge, you are often much more effective asking questions than giving orders.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“People should ask their bosses questions. I appreciate it when people ask me the same kind of open-ended questions I so often ask. What are you hoping for? What are you expecting? What’s the most important part of this for you?”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“Being able to imagine the perspective of others is also a critical strategic tool for managing reality in a whole range of professions.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“My talent is to know enough to ask the questions, and to know when something interesting happens.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“The classroom should be a vineyard of questions, a place to cultivate them, to learn both how to ask them and how to chase down the answers.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“You can’t simply design your own strategy, then execute it and wait to see what happens so you can respond. You have to anticipate what’s going to happen—by first disrupting your own point of view.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“You can’t negotiate an international trade agreement without being able to understand what other nations need.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“How can we encourage curiosity at work if we don’t tell people to be curious?”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“... the safest answer for any studio, or investor, or executive to give is no.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“But even when curiosity has gotten me in trouble, it has been interesting trouble. Curiosity”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

“I also realized that curiosity had saved my ass that Thursday afternoon. I’ve been curious as long as I can remember.”
― Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life