Quotes About Openness

Think about your work situation. Do you treat your creativity like a fossil fuel—a limited resource that must be conserved—or have you harnessed the unending power of the sun? Are you in an environment where creativity thrives? Is there room for new ideas every day? Can you make room?

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Trust is the first requisite for making a friend. How can we be anything but alone, if our attitude to men is one of armed neutrality, if we are suspicious, and assertive, and querulous, and over-cautious in our advances?

Some men have a genius for friendship. That is because they are open and responsive, and unselfish.

I said I looked like a dork and she said that was true, but there was something classic about my dorkiness. I was so open and my awkwardness and embarrassment were so clear and understandable. I was extremely watchable.

It's so weird being straight. You have no defenses. Shit happens and you have to feel it. You have no choice.

Tom finds a new skill: ping-pong. Why? Because he does what's put in front of him without judgment.

I do not believe in sitting on a problem. Because the longer you sit on that thing, the longer it'll irritate you. If you're keeping it to yourself, there's nothing the guy you're mad at can do to fix it, either, because you haven't told him why you're mad.

The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.

Isn't that how it always is? Just when you think you've lost something so precious, you can't ever recover from it . . . and then, if you keep your eyes and heart open, you find that the loss has made room for something else of great value, something you would never have found otherwise?

Surprised to be here?" "Actually, yes," Joe admitted. "I'm just wondering how many business legends would open their homes to a perfect stranger on a Saturday morning." Pindar nodded as they walked along the path. "Actually, successful people do this all the time. Typically, the more successful they are, the more willing they are to share their secrets with others.

In fact, all those things I just mentioned—having big dreams and being curious and believing in ourselves—those are all aspects of being receptive, they're all the same thing as being receptive. Being open to receive is like . . .

I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you.

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We don't really know where this goes, and I'm not sure we really care.

If you keep on thinking the way you've always been thinking, you'll keep on getting what you've always been getting!" Is that enough?

By lifting our hands, however, we are indicating to the Lord that we want to open up our hearts and lives to his Holy Spirit. But this is one of the most difficult things for us to do.

You have to be dumb enough to be smart enough to do a job you know nothing about. Loose the pride....

Our heads met, our eyes crossed paths, the window to the courtyard lay open, I whispered in his ear and he started crying in my hair, wept like a child, I stroked him, touched by his crying, that he opened up, as he truly was, rent his shirt and exposed his heart like the paintings of Jesus hung over the beds in country houses.

When you're open, a hitchhiker—a "randomer," as my daughter Eve calls them—can become an angel.

I'm drawn to conversation because in the best kind you don't know where you're going, only that you will get somewhere good.

I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls—with the great outside world.