Quotes About Openness

This is what I'm saying: you hate your life. But you don't know what life is. Life is too huge for you to possibly hate. If you hate life, you haven't seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't fit you. However big you think your life is, it's nothing compared to what's out there.

Hank, this is great. Yes. He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one's own greatness, knowing that it is understood.

she had nothing to hide from him, nothing to keep unstated, everything was granted, answered, found.

I'll listen if you want me to... But I think I should tell you now that nothing you can say will make any difference. If you don't mind that, I don't mind listening.

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth. Dagny Taggart

change could surprise you only if you didn't expect it and weren't looking for it

While in the past we may have wanted loyal employees, today we need flexible people who are not possessive about "the way things are done around here." And

In the past, Hem did not like it when someone challenged his beliefs. He resisted changing his mind, and felt offended when anyone suggested that what he was thinking or saying might not be true.

Change could surprise you only if you didn't expect it and weren't looking for it.

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me. And if they do something I don't like, I'll tell them.

I just wanted someone to tell me the truth

Anyone, anywhere in the world should have free, unhindered access to not just my research, but to the research of every great and enquiring mind across the spectrum of human understanding

My potential salvation...must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open our eyes with aha -- while direct, abstract, learned assaults upon generalities usually glaze them over.

Small children are great accepters. They don't understand shame, or the need to hide things.

Between midnight and four, everyone should have permission to speak freely.

We're only as sick as our secrets.

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

people loved their pets, often with a degree of openness they couldn't allow themselves to express toward other people.

A man who cant discuss ideas, especially those that are not a reflection of him, is not open to himself

Sometimes, the best thing you can do in order to learn about the world around you is to step outside of yourself, remove your routine and watch the happenings about you.

Before you find the magic of life you have to open yourself up to the possibility of it being there.

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

When will you open your eyes to the possibility of the world?