Sentence examples for small-minded thinking from inspiring English sources

Grandiose visions sketched by European leaders are falling victim to old-fashioned or small-minded thinking.

So, let's not build statues or name airports for anyone any longer, because in a relatively short time, given this sort of small-minded thinking we will ultimately call for the excoriation of our present leaders.

Why didn't you see a lot of furious diatribes, challenges to power, and mockery of small-minded thinking on the street in Wynwood - and what would it take for Street Art to embrace its power to affect social and political change?

That bigger purpose lifts the group up from small minded thinking and begins to remove the pettiness that can often be present in a group dynamic.

"The best part of coming to Rhodes," he said, "is that this hotel is so nice". One of the strange aspects of being in Greece and being both conscious of the crisis that the country is undergoing and also, constantly, being pressed on by the physical beauty of the Greek islands is that one begins to think that one is small minded for thinking Greece might need to be more like Germany or America.

"The only thing needed is open-minded thinking.

Thinking dispositions measurement Participants completed the actively open-minded thinking scale (AOT) (Stanovich and West 1997; Sa et al. 1999), as described previously (Athanasiou and Papadopoulou 2011).

We used the actively open-minded thinking scale as a predictor of the acceptance and the conceptual change in evolution among students (Athanasiou and Papadopoulou 2011).

I don't miss the small-minded, self-centred way of thinking.

Thinking big means steering clear of the small minded, petty thinking of the masses.

I also think it's stupid, small-minded and shortsighted".