Quotes About Openness

As long as nothing happens anything is possible...

Love is not wrong, but love should be happy and open -- it is only wrong when it is secret, unhappy . . . It can be more unhappy than anything but the loss of God. It is the loss of god. You don't need penance, my child, you have suffered quite enough.

Sometimes in this life you have to understand that we don't need to know everything.

But this would have been to ignore the young man of only twenty-five, who, for all his, by now, increasing and debilitating proneness to thought, still possessed, in spite of himself, a healthy animal nature. He falls in love, heavily, thickly, thankfully (is there any other way?). He is still--thank God--open to experience. He sees himself, indeed, as saved--returned to the sweet, palpable goodness of the world.

It makes me feel young to be wrong so often.

But as my mother always said: You never know what's cooking in someone else's pot.

The open view of the future is the most plausible view because it squares with our everyday life. Whatever philosophy we might embrace, we all live as though the open view were true. With every decision we make we assume that much of our immediate future is settled (e.g., we take for granted the ongoing reality of our world and the laws of physics) but that some of it is up to us to decide. The open view simply says that this common-sense assumption is accurate. Responding

If we only love those who agree with us, we are in fact not loving others at all; we are only loving the (assumed) "rightness" of our own ideas!

Signing off now, but keeping the line open, as always, I'll say Amen.

the student is ready, the teacher appears—do

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

Or is it just that the world upwraps itself to you, again and again, as soon as you're ready to see it anew?

Are you going to get offended when someone says something that is counter to your worldview? I think you need to be willing to change your worldview or, at least, be open to other people's ideas.

The reason why Silicon Valley is a worldwide innovation center is because it is a open culture that embraces diversity. You see people from all over the world. When you have many people from different backgrounds gathered together, that is where innovation comes from.

When results are shared freely amongst the biological community, as has been done for the worm and the Human Genome Projects, specialist scientists can move much more rapidly towards their goals.

Emotionally, I've always worn my heart on my sleeve.

I'm not worried about making a certain type of music or sticking to one type of music.

Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.

When we are young - or even 32 - we often say 'yes' to everything because we're worried that we won't know what we'll like if we don't try it.

Sometimes when I'm just really relaxed, that's also a creative time for me, because that's when my mind is more open because I'm not worried or thinking or being very analytical.

If I remember back to when I wasn't open about my sexuality, I spent a great deal of time worried about it.

Don't worry about planning every step of your life.

As long as I focus on what I feel and don't worry about where I'm going, it works out. Having no expectations but being open to everything is what makes wonderful things happen. If I don't worry, there's no obstruction and life flows easily. It sounds impractical, but 'Expect nothing; be open to everything' is really all it is.

When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.