Quotes About Openness

In this Internet age of shared information, even if you don't tell the people, they will find out.

What I'm doing is not really based on a definite identification or a definition of what it is. It's intended to be open to interpretation.

I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.

It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.

I don't mind anyone asking me any questions, I've got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is, that's what I call an interview.

I don't mind anyone asking me any questions, I've got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is; that's what I call an interview. I'm not someone who's like 'Right, you can't ask this, that, this, that, this, that.' It's got to be a real interview. I've literally got nothing to hide.

I've never hidden my sexuality from anyone - my whole life, in fact - and I've been waiting for someone to ask about it in an interview, 'cause it's not something you just blurt out.

Charles Barkley is always a good interview because he's honest.

For the most part, political correctness doesn't exist here. - Toby, Marymount Manhattan College

come from a place of curiousity, rather than from judgment

To "purify" the senses is to release them, so far as human beings may, from the tyranny of egocentric judgments; to make of them the organs of direct perception. This means that we must crush our deep-seated passion for classification and correspondences; ignore the instinctive, selfish question, "What does it mean to me?" learn to dip ourselves in the universe at our gates, and know it, not from without by comprehension, but from within by self-mergence.

It is a state of preparation: a way of opening the door. That which comes in when the door is opened will be that which we truly and passionately desire. The will makes plain the way: the heart--the whole man--conditions the guest. The true contemplative, coming to this plane of utter stillness, does not desire "extraordinary favours and visitations," but the privilege of breathing for a little while the atmosphere of Love.

Di solito nei nostri muri trasparenti, che sembrano tessuti d'aria scintillante, noi viviamo sempre in bella vista, eternamente lavati dalla luce. Non abbiamo da nasconderci nulla l'un l'altro.

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.

Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Trasmundo Despedida Si muero. dejad el balcón abierto. El niño come naranjas. (Desde mi balcón lo veo.) El segador siega el trigo. (Desde mi balcón lo siento.) ¡Si muero, dejad el balcón abierto!

The solitary traveler occupies a place of openness that becomes a place of radical empowerment, because learning begins in letting go, becoming vulnerable, feeling awkward and stupid, losing the self to find the self.

I cannot tell it to anyone, so I'm telling it to everyone...

On Thomas's view, we pray in order to dispose ourselves so as to receive properly what God wills to give us.

Le doy un solo consejo: diga siempre lo que piensa».