Quotes About Openness

I would never say no to something the team wanted to do, but I might say yes to something the team didn't want to do. You want there to be multiple ways to get to 'yes' because you want to encourage risk-taking.

You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated it, you have to put it aside and see within. That's the whole method of meditation, awareness, watchfulness.

For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.

Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.

Public servants are obliged to level with everybody, whether or not they'll like what he has to say.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

Do not expect the world to facilitate you if you are not willing to adapt yourself. Let's

We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.

If you are a senior executive, you need to embrace each individual's right to choose his or her own hardships — and you must talk about that openly, candidly.

WHETHER OR NOT we believe that Heaven is open does not negate the truth that it is. Our thoughts do not alter the open heaven over our lives; instead, they determine whether or not we partake of this reality. Jesus Christ secured an open heaven for every single Spirit-indwelt believer. This is a fact. The question is: Do our minds agree with this fact or do they entertain a lie?

we must sacrifice our need to be right, to understand or explain things. We have to trust Him enough to let Him shatter our boxes of understanding and lead us into deeper realms of His truth.

PRAYER Holy Spirit, help me to welcome the unusual and supernatural. These are the very things that the world longs for.

Ask God and be ready to listen.

They're good at this. Don't be so sure that your version of reality is better because it's newer.

I try to be available for life to happen to me

I try to be able for life to happen to me.

With that in mind, here's my Nerd Code of Conduct: ?Be open and be honest. ?Don't pretend you know what you don't know (often a little too easy to do). ?Show the world as it is, rather than the way you wish it would be. ?Respect facts; don't deny them just because you don't like them. ?Move forward only after you trust your design.

everyone you meet knows something you don't

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

It may be a task that's so Herculean, but I think it's a worthy goal to try to open up America to individuals who just so happen to have a different skin color, that they have every right and every freedom to think what they want to think.

If I was gay, why would I hide it?

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Conceptually, I am open to mistakes - errors, actually. I do play lots of wrong notes while I am making some music, and a mistake or a wrong note is like a gift for me: 'Oh, wow, an unknown sound or an unknown harmony. I didn't know about this.'