Quotes About Openness

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.

bisogna essere preparati a tutto, anche alla felicità.

La vita è un'avventura aperta, esposta, non protegga il bambino. Lo fortifichi interiormente perché sappia affrontare la realtà qualunque essa sia.

Yo creía en una historia para el saber. Una historia que escuchara la melodía del pasado, una historia abierta a los más variados temas de la vida humana, una historia que se ocupara del pasado sin leerlo como una anticipación necesaria del presente, sin imponerle las categorías del presente y sobre todo sin convertirla en un instrumento de manipulación política.

No sé, uno necesita de vez en cuando pensar que no todos los extraños que nos rodean son seres horribles.

Cuando leo algo que entiendo perfectamente, lo abandono desilusionado. No me gustan los relatos con historias comprensibles. Porque entender puede ser una condena. Y no entender, la puerta que se abre.

el mejor de la vida es viajar y perder las teorías, perderlas todas.

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

We administered our main surveys by mail for methodological reasons. More than other types of survey research, mail surveys provide respondents with a feeling of anonymity and encourage them to be more open to sensitive questions. Also, in mail surveys, respondents have more time to recall the past and this improves their ability to remember. In addition to this, the response rates in mail surveys are at least as good as in face-to-face or telephone surveys

One goes through life like a flower with its face turned to the sun, ever seeking, ever hoping, wanting to trust others, but afraid to do so. How much better if we trusted one another, if we saw only the good things, the finer things in our fellow creatures! How much better if we were frank and open, if we went on our ways without the cloak of hypocrisy and lies that we wear now.

We'd like to keep things flexible;

I tell you here what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have lived. I choose not to be silent, and you can choose to open your ears, and eyes, or close them. Maybe this story is not for you. We can agree that we each see the world differently, and each have a contribution to the larger story, and believe we have things to learn from each other.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know.

There ought to be no awkwardness or embarrassment to either of us, tho' there may be some anxiety: and if you will open to me fairly the whole state of your mind on these subjects, tho' I shall venture to state to you fairly the points where I fear we may differ, and to desire you to re-examine your own ideas where I think you are mistaken, I will not importune you with fruitless discussion on any opinion which you have deliberately formed.

Accessibility also refers to widespread access to the reports.

Sharing, transparency, and openness are all now fast-moving trends in medicine that have been potentiated by the digital infrastructure.

individual users do not have to develop everything they need on their own: they can benefit from innovations developed

The empirical finding that users often freely reveal their innovations has been a major surprise to innovation researchers.

Dedicated to all who are building the information commons.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

As everywhere in the ancient world, virginity simply means not belonging to any man personally; virginity is in essence sacred, not because it is a state of physical invio-lateness, but because it is a state of psychic openness to God.

SkyClan's destiny is that we will never live in isolation from other cats. We're not like forest Clans, we can't shut ourselves off entirely from kittypets or rogues. And visitors will be welcome.