Quotes About Openness

Planning things is neither my cup of tea nor my choice. Same applies to books too.

When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.

Even the mundane task may have something to teach you - especially if it's a task you haven't performed before.

I try to teach my kids to be open.

I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.

College education teaches you humility.

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?'

There's times where I could take all the shots every time I touch the ball, but that's not me. I just play a team game and just take open shots.

My teammates tell me to shoot the ball when I'm open. I feel like I'm open most of the time, so I shoot it.

With my teammates, I'm more open, funnier than people see me.

If you want to be successful and you want your teammates to respect you, you got to be open to advice from the older guys.

If I have something to say then I am prepared to speak to my teammates about it.

Es difícil cuando una persona pude ver tu alma. Te fuerza a abrirte. A ser vulnerable. Es mucho más fácil estar con alguien que sólo es un amigo ocasional. • capítulo 23

What matters is that someone—that you—know me that well. When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend.

In fact, there can be no doubt that when people have the experience that they've been listened to and understood, they let go of their preoccupation with their own thoughts and feelings. The door to their mind swings open, and that makes it much easier for them to hear you.

Humility and gratitude leave your heart and mind open to receive unexpected blessings, even on the heels of disappointment.

Look, people are attracted to other people for all sorts of reasons, and there's no right or wrong way to be attracted.

My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.

Fear is for people who don't get out very much.