Quotes About Openness

I have worked with another first-time director who was not that open, and it was probably one of the worst experiences I ever had, so my antennas are really out.

I'm really loving and open at the same time.

I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.

I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.

I talked about the stuff so openly that people are able to connect and relate. I put everything out there [into the network], and if I'm having a bad time, people know about it.

I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

Living in America has made me more practical. And, at the same time, exactly the opposite, because I'm very open to different ways of being and seeing that are completely not practical.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.

I've literally become comfortable with approaching whatever style of music at any time.

Be curious enough to keep an open mind to what's happening around you in society. You can look at yourself and the world at the same time.

Don't place expectations on someone. Enjoy the time you have together, and let it go where it goes.

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together

Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.

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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are different.

An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.

But life can give a lot. If you can't see inside the heart no matter how you look, then why not look? Why not see as much as you can? How is that disrespectful? If you are only given one look, shouldn't you look as fully as you can?

Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me

Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to foresee you, only to discover you.