Quotes About Openness

quick-witted, an open book in her lap; inside her chest pulses something huge, something full of longing, something unafraid.

Your mind is like a parachute; it only works when it is open.

The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. (MLK, Jr., Riverside Church, New York City, April 4, 1964) (Note: 50 years ago)

Be skeptical of everything but closed minded to nothing.

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial.

People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.

I just don't like closing doors. I can't do it psychologically.

I know I could have a better public image if I were less open, if I ducked more issues and didn't speak out. But it's not my nature.

If Freemasons won't be completely open about their membership, should we not say that in all cases membership is incompatible with public service? Asking public servants to either confirm they are not a member of a masonic organisation or to be open when they are won't fully excise the backroom deals or the stench of privilege.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly.

The story of my life publicly has been told through 'Alternative Press.' Former employees, people who have worked there - my friend Ryan Downey, who wrote for 'AP' for a long time - I've been able to have really great articles written about me and talk openly about things in my life.

When you go through things publicly, there's no hiding.

If you want to publish data, you should do it to share knowledge.

By always looking out and always moving myself forward and being disciplined and being open to new experiences, I think that's how I was able to diversify because if it felt right to me creatively, I went for it. It didn't matter if I knew how to do that, I just did it because my creative heart felt pulled to it. That seems to have worked out.

My story's been an open book for a long time, no pun intended.

It's wonderful that Poland is free again and there's open debate and people can pursue their interests. I'm all for it.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking about.

Why push people away? I love when people come up to me and say they appreciate the work!

When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.

I'm definitely not pushing to find who can I write with or produce with, but of course I'm open to something if it comes up.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.