Quotes About Openness

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Come to Marlboro country.

Nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

Hug Department: Always Open

Trust is letting go of needing to know all the details before you open your heart.

For this thing was not done in a corner.

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.

Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

Let love be without dissimulation.

Minds are like parachutes — they only function when open.

Given to hospitality.

I don't discriminate - I'm an equal-opportunity hugger.

A closed mind is a good thing to lose.

What is the point in having a mind unless you can change it?

Por eso necesitamos adquirir otra vez la vitalidad y apertura del niño. No podemos permanecer infantiles, porque entonces no avanzaríamos en el proceso de nuestro desarrollo. El arte de vivir consiste por una parte en hacernos progresivamente más maduros y más adultos, pero por otra parte en conservar vivo en nosotros el niño interior.

I'm a big believer in winging it. I'm a big believer that you're never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I'm always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty—a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.

The one thing you need most of all is the readiness to learn something new. The chances that you will wake up are in direct proportion to the amount of truth you can take without running away.

But are you listening for what will confirm what you already think? Or are you listening in order to discover something new?

Si tienes mil platos favoritos, la pérdida de uno de ellos te pasará inadvertida, y tu felicidad no sufrirá menoscabo. Pero son precisamente tus apegos los que te impiden desarrollar un más amplio y más variado gusto por las cosas y las personas.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.