Quotes About Openness

inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild

Listening is always preferable to talking. Let the other remove his veil, as my grandmother used to say. Give your response time to ripen.

Eu adoro todas as coisas E o meu coração é um albergue aberto toda a noite. Tenho pela vida um interesse ávido Que busca compreendê-la sentindo-a muito. Amo tudo, animo tudo, empresto humanidade a tudo, Aos homens e às pedras, às almas e às máquinas.

I've always felt an almost physical repugnance for secret things — intrigues, diplomacy, secret societies, occultism

It does a man no harm to move around a bit and see things. It is a great thing for widening out the mind. A wide mind is a grand thing, it nearly always leads to farseeing inventions.

The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.

When I don't know what to do with a character, that's when I say yes to it. When it's far away from the way I am, the way I feel or the way I think, that's when it's more attractive.

I know very little about farming!

Yeah, I feel bad for people who think they have to stay in one place - people that feel loyalty to a fault.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.

I think people get fearful of things they don't know or understand.

In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience, too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling.

I think anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it or listen to it.

If my parents don't like something, they tell me on my face. You get real feedback from them.

A lot of females, they want to do the things that I do. Some females are so closed, but they want to be open. Some girls, they want to feel that power that I tell them that I have. I tell women that I have power over these men, that I use these men.

When I went into the conservatory at 17, then I was able to open up and accept everything about myself and show my feminine side as well as my masculine.

It didn't take very long for me to feel like the country radio box was a little too small. So that's what 'Don't Fence Me In' was all about.

There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.

There are very few people who work for me who are afraid to tell me what I don't want to hear.

There are very few things that I don't talk about - even my relationships.