Quotes About Openness

The one quality that seemingly guaranteed the success of these and so many other numbers is Pan's ability to remain open to a variety of sources and styles. Though it is difficult for any artist to avoid being redundant, Pan, nevertheless, strove to make each dance a complete and unique experience.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Things we were going to do are now being done by others. They were, it seems, not in our minds to do (were we or they out of our minds?) but simply ready to enter any open mind, any mind disturbed enough not to have an idea in it.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

when God opens his mouth to us, he should not find our hearts closed and shut firmly against him. _________________________________________________________________

We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

The way to realize is to open. The more you open, the more you know, and soften, and love.

When people try to hide things from you, they shouldn't be nice to you. They ought to ignore you or throw a pie at you or do something other than smile.

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

I've learned that although our dreams may die, if you open yourself up to life, new ones are born.

Beliefs can be roadways or roadblocks. A variety of beliefs can make life interesting and colorful.

I think one's musical life should be free and open to new experience in order to keep expanding your mind and horizons.

Hospitality is the key to new ideas, new friends, new possibilities. What we take into our lives changes us. Without new people and new ideas, we are imprisoned inside ourselves.

To live an art-filled life, one must be willing to try new things & accept that things change.

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.

Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.

Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.

If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.

Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though - I'll tell anyone anything.

I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget that life has many flavors to savor.