Quotes About Openness

The world needs open hearts and open minds, and it is not through rigid systems, whether old or new, that these can be derived.

A mind perpetually open, will be a mind perpetually vacant.

We may say that thought is free when it is exposed to free competition among beliefs—i.e., when all beliefs are able to state their case, and no legal or pecuniary advantages or disadvantages attach to beliefs. This is an ideal which, for various reasons, can never be fully attained. But it is possible to approach very much nearer to it than we do at present.

Someone suddenly had direct, unabashed access to my heart.

I never had that reputation of being not accessible.

Pretty much, I am always open to input from everyone; although I don't require it, the feedback is conducive to getting the play together.

Innovation requires an experimental mindset.

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.

We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

Transformational politics requires us to challenge the way people think about issues, opening their minds to better possibilities.

As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile.

Once I'm comfortable with someone, I'm not reserved. I'm a compulsive confessor.

Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.

My aim is to be as open and as incomprehensible as possible. There has to be a perfect balance between open and shut.

I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is going to get made.

I believe one shouldn't shut oneself to any possibilities.

I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.

I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?

Sometimes, we feel like we don't want to offend people, but there are times that we need to express ourselves without fear that somebody is going to shut us down simply because we have differing opinions. That's how we grow.

I want to stay open. I don't want to shut down the possibility of new ideas, new ways of seeing the world.

My view is, let's not shut down anyone's right to speak, let's meet their comments with more speech.

People always ask me how I muster the strength to be so open about things, and I explain to them that I took the Myers-Briggs test, like, four times, and every single time, I ranked an 87 percent extrovert, so it would probably take more strength for me to shut up.

In the past, people used to tell me to shut up a bit. But what I believe is to put out your opinion and let everyone else react. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.