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Open Mind

The purpose of having an open mind is the same as having an open mouth, the object being eventually to close it on something solid. But one should never close either mind or mouth until the general circumstances of the moment make it reasonable to do so. (Steve Allen)

As the participants in the packed room labored through a series of group activities, they discovered there was no best way to approach needs analysis, only many good ways, depending on perspective. Unfortunately correct turns into right and dividing lines get drawn. Ensuing camps create rules, absolutes, and dogmatism, all the while forgetting that their stance began with a point of perspective." (Chip R. Bell and Fredric H. Margolis, "The Practice of Training: A Matter of Perspective," Journal of Management Development -- Vol. 8, No. 1, 1989)

Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing. (T. H. Huxley)

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