Quotes About Openness

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

I have the most openness about my art... It's total freedom and willingness to work. I'm willing really to walk on the edge, and if I haven't achieved it, that's where I want to go. But in my life - maybe because my life has been so traumatic, so absurd - there hasn't been one normal, happy thing.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.

I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

I think I have a very American desire and willingness to divulge everything. I would divulge more if I didn't know it wasn't smart.

I believe being a true Global Citizen means you have the willingness and openness to step outside of your own boundaries, and I'm honored to represent that with TUMI.

It doesn't matter how much you already know. It's about showing humility and a willingness to learn; not just in movies, but in life in general.

There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too.

The Web's core vision and value is to be platform independent. Microsoft has no right to think it can win a tool that is for the people, of the people, and ultimately - by the people.

Wherever the wind blows me, I'll go! My eventual goal is to have enough experience to produce something on my own.

I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.

Making America great again, as if to keep the world out. The world and all its fresh ideas and everything that's new and exhilarating and the wind of change that should blow through the world - block it out, wall ourselves up. That for me goes with a small vocabulary. A narrow, confining vocabulary.

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.