Quotes About Openness

I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places.

An ideal reader is someone who doesn't know what on Earth you've been doing, who will look at it with absolute freshness and go, 'Oh, so that's what you've been up to.'

I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

I've always been ready to embrace what's around the corner because it might be just the thing that I need to help me grow.

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next.

Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

I may adopt. I love children and I do feel the need to take the legacy forward. I am open to it, but emotionally you have to be ready for it. Raising a child is really a huge responsibility. And I should have that time and emotional energy to give to child. How and when is a decision my mother and I will take a few years from now.

We are ready to be criticised by any journalists because we know we are not perfect.

If your mind is empty, it is ready for anything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

Matt Hardy came into ROH with open arms. Matt came into ROH ready to learn.

I don't have any issue with people seeing my real self.

I just think there's a real art in listening. I need to listen.

The Internet gives the public a chance to see what the real deal is! There ain't no hiding.

I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.

It's really important for women in the public eye to be open - these pop stars who don't look, behave, speak like real women - that's not fair on women. Being real, honest, authentic - too many women in the public eye are afraid to be authentic because they are afraid they will be judged.

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

I care a great deal about LGBT U.S. servicemen and women being able to serve openly and honestly. Since early in my career, I've included realistic LGBT characters in my books. The idea that a gay Navy SEAL had to hide who he was in order to serve was a terrible one - and I made sure my readers knew that!

I do listen to more jazz and gospel than anything else, but my ears are still very much open and listening to stuff that comes out. And a lot of times my kids turn me on to stuff.

When I got somethin' to say, I'll say it.

You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.