Quotes About Openness

As parents, I believe it's our job to enhance the good for our kids even as we try to mitigate the bad, and more than that, to remain open to learning what our children's media interests have to teach us.

if I'm sure I'm right, there is little hope of seeing where I am failing. So I keep trying the same old things-

the fact that it took the rise of democracies and otherwise open societies at Athens and elsewhere to create the climate in which public eloquence became a political indispensability.

You don't have to keep up, dear. You just have to keep open.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

If we both believe that we have nothing to learn from the other, is it not obvious that we will both be wrong?

An author should never turn down the opportunity for a new experience

When you all have figgered out how to sail across space to our shores, you'll find yourselves just as welcome as the people who come to your shores.

I should have known that a man can receive only what his mind has been prepared to receive, that all else is ignored, or interpreted to suit his prior interpretation—that man can only accept change through it being interpreted as no change, or not knowing it is change.

Just tell us the truth

This love frightens me, it causes me fear and ecstasy and pain and a thousand other things I never knew I could feel. It terrifies me, leaves me wounded and open and vulnerable. But I want you to know it exists. And I want you to know that if there ever comes a day in your life when you want my love, then it is here. I will be here. Always. That is all I want you to know.

listen, even if you don't want to hear

Love is one of the simplest of what we call the Mysteries, and yet the strongest, like air: the greatest treasure cannot buy it nor the smartest thief steal it nor the most powerful emperor command it. And like air, it freely fills to infinity whatever is open to it.

I was often, later on, to act out with Giaconda a circumspection I did not feel: her abundance made others reticent; her openness evoked discretion.

People," the doctor said sadly, "are always so anxious to get things out into the open where they can put a name to them, even a meaningless name, so long as it has something of a scientific ring.

People, the doctor said sadly, are always so anxious to get things out into the open where they can put a name to them, even a meaningless name, so long as it has something of a scientific ring.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.

We should not hoard knowledge; we should be free from our knowledge.

All good work requires self-revelation.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

He was like a sponge, erasing the past, soaking up the future.

One must be humble, one must keep personal preferences and antipathies in the background, if one wishes to discover the realities of the world.

She believed in not judging other people based on how they looked and in having what she called "an open mind.

That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot in your heart at once.