Quotes About Openness

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

People should be able to express themselves without feeling threatened. That is true in football, but also in life.

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

Managers have to demand more of their HR departments, and they have to demand more of themselves. And we all have to be open to hiring people that don't look like us and that don't sound like us, and not find that threatening.

I don't really have a three-year plan or a five-year plan. I don't know what's next, and that's what I find quite exciting. I dig it.

I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

I've never really learned anything when I feel like it's being forced down my throat.

I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn't know whether this program had been kinda forced down their throats. But they were wonderful.

I'm not trying to shove anything down anybody's throat.

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.

You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.

Whatever I'm throwing out there in my work, you either catch that detail because you're ready to catch it, but if you're not, that's OK - you're still being entertained.

I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around.

You have to be flexible, go with the flow sometimes, and get creative with things that's thrown at you.

When the universe throws something your way, or things happen, I'm one of those people that goes with it, and I don't fight it.

I am one of those people who go with the flow, and thus, I have no goal in life.