Quotes About Openness

The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with possibilities.

Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

Open offices keep everyone in tune with what is going on and keep the energy up. If an employee is about privacy, show him or her how to use the lock on the bathroom.

One must take the world as one finds it.

good listeners have a humble perspective. Humility in listening means that we let go of preconceived opinions, we let go of the need to be right, we let go of our own insecurities, and we let go of the need to appear wise, good or spiritual. In short, we let go of ourselves in order to be present to the other. This is a high calling and a commitment we will need to return to again and again.

Well, maybe that's what love is, as state of mind ready to grace anyone willing to accept it. Anyone who cares.

Who but a fool would stay in one place and butt her head against the same window time and again?

Fall in love whenever you can.

Invention comes about when we let it, when we don't mind feeling stupid as we do it— it feels like what children do, it is what children do — when we clear a place for it, become quiet, and wait.

empathic and open, understanding and understandable, honest and available, helpful and loving, feeling, transparent, clear

But such a sensation can happen only when I feel free and remain open and receptive to all my feelings, including the negative ones.

The thing about life, Harry had told Lauren, was to live in the world with interest. To keep your eyes open and see the possibilities - see the humanity - in everybody you met. To be aware. If he had anything at all to teach her it was that. Be aware.

The heaving sickness past, her nausea gone, her bodily fluids replaced, she felt the lightness of being in the open space around her. Her walls the canyon's walls, she owned them not at all; her floor, the river beach. Her view, the heavens. It was, this freedom she was in, the longed-for cathedral of her dreams.

As long as someone holds an arms-folded position,a negative attitude will persist.

Candor disarms paranoia.

Give, share, loose—lest we die, unbloomed.

We learn to live with sadness like a great, lovely companion, because it's a soft sadness that softens the heart and makes you open to everything.

The clever words leaked out of his mind and he spoke without thinking, looking her straight in the eye. Maybe this was what honesty felt like.

An open mind is like to an open wound,' growled Glokta. 'Vulnerable to poison. Liable to fester. Apt to give its owner only pain.

Just because something has always been done a certain way does not necessarily mean it's the best way, or the correct way, or the healthiest way for your horse, or your relationship with your horse, or your life.

Noi non giudichiamo. Le cose strane sono il nostro mestiere.

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

A vision of spirituality beyond authoritarianism.

We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.