Quotes About Openness

To live a creative life we must forget our fear of being wrong.

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

Our progress in meditation does not depend on the measure of pleasure or pain in our experience. Rather, the quality of our practice has to do with how open we are to whatever is there.

The seed of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

What you should do is hire very smart people who are a good fit. And then you should expose them (and yourself) to ideas. The ideas should come from within and from outside.

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

Being able to alter your belief in what is real is critical in learning to RV.

was temporarily suspending my disbelief, to allow an unusual experience to happen.

You grow old when you lose interest in life, when you cease to dream, to hunger after new truths, and to search for new worlds to conquer. When your mind is open to new ideas, new interests, and when you raise the curtain and let in the sunshine and inspiration of new truths of life and the universe, you will be young and vital.

To effectively create a front porch experience, there cannot be any expectations that the group

Des Menschen Heimweh erwacht draußen, es wächst und wächst, wenn keine Mauern es beengen.

I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed mind, ringed as it were with concrete and cement, and that the so-called romantic is like an unfenced garden in and out of which truth can wander at will.

Welcome, Wind Runner.

Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.

I suppose you know what you're about." "Oh no, I don't," she answered. "I never know what I'm about. If you always do, you miss so much—you get into a solemn habit of trying nothing till you're sure.

I am an anarch in space, a metahistorian in time. Hence I am committed to neither the political present nor tradition; I am blank and also open and potent in any direction. Dear old Dad, in contrast, still pours his wine into the same decaying old wineskins, he still believes in a constitution when nothing and no one constitutes anything.

They are interested not in our solutions but in our answers.

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

It is not balance you need but adaptability.

I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something. Everything is bizarre, and everything has value. Or if not value, at least merits investigation.

case, it was then I recognized that my own values—the tenets I hold dear as an Englishman—they are not the only, nor the best, values in existence. I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something. Everything is bizarre, and everything has value. Or if not value, at least merits investigation.

I hold dear as an Englishman—they are not the only, nor the best, values in existence. I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something.

I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something.