Quotes About Openness

Their only real endowments were soft skills such as a willingness to accept the help of strangers, stubborn practicality, and the ability to live with uncertainty.

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

Come, come, whoever you are . . . Come, even if you have broken your vows A hundred times, Come, come again, come. —RUMI

Keep having conversations until you stop hearing new stuff.

There is no reason for a sound faith to be irrational. A useful faith should not be blind, but should be well aware of its grounds. A sound faith should be able to use scientific investigation to strengthen itself. it should be open to the spirit not to lock itself up in the letter. A nourishing, useful, healthful faith should be no obstacle to developing a science of death.

We can only receive what our minds are capable of accepting.

But the true emperor, Luke is telling us, arrives vulnerable and exposed, because the good life is not about the protection of the ego, but rather about the willingness to become open to the other in love.

Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far."

Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

The way you keep software soft is to leave as many options open as possible, for as long as possible. What are the options that we need to leave open? They are the details that don't matter.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

No, not sure. But willing. Willing, finally, to lose what might be lost, willing to embrace what might be gained.

Seduction requires an openness to the other person, a willingness to bend and adapt. Excessive pride, without anything to justify it, is highly anti-seductive.

The Dimensional Mind has two essential requirements: one, a high level of knowledge about a field or subject; and two, the openness and flexibility to use this knowledge in new and original ways.

To help yourself to cultivate serendipity, you should keep a notebook with you at all times.

Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today. You must cut yourself loose from the past and open your eyes to the present. Your tendency to fight the last war may lead to your final war.

El amante accesible. Cuando la gente madura, se protege contra experiencias dolorosas encerrándose en sí misma. El precio de esto es la rigidez, física y mental. Pero los niños están por naturaleza desprotegidos y dispuestos a experimentar, y esta receptividad es muy atractiva.

Hide your intentions not by closing up (with the risk of appearing secretive, and making people suspicious) but by talking endlessly about your desires and goals just not your real ones. You will kill three birds with one stone: you appear friendly, open, and trusting; you conceal your intentions; and you send your rivals on time-consuming wild-goose chases.

By being unabashedly open you make yourself so predictable and familiar that it is almost impossible to respect or fear you, and power will not accrue to a person who cannot inspire such emotions.