Quotes About Openness

I'm not jaded yet. I'm still at the point where, if someone comes up to me with great energy, I'm happy to meet them.

I have gained so much more from my experiences of being open and loving humanity rather than being jaded and being closed-off.

I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.

I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.

I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.

I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

The secret of life is to say yes all the time, because when you're old, you don't want to say, 'I wish I'd done this, I wish I had done that.

We must realize that it is not Satan who defeats us; it is our openness to him. To perfectly subdue the devil we must walk in the "shelter of the Most High" (Ps. 91:1).

Societies are not trapped by their pasts and freely borrow ideas and institutions from each other.

Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction.

Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction.

Notre tête est ronde pour permettre à la pensée de changer de direction.

Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

The wisest man will let himself be swayed By others' wisdom and relax in time.

You have complete permission to enter my mind, probing all my thoughts, looking for whatever you need to know. There is nothing I intend to hide from you. No matter what you will find, either luminous or dark, you can rest assured that in my heart I deeply love you and I want the best for you, and... I do mean you!

There are many gateways. And we may need to master all of them in order to gain full access to who we truly are. Yet, there is a special one, which can allow progress to be easier. This is not truly a gateway, it is a natural opening, which is why it can be easily disregarded. It was there at all times, it has not been built, it is devoid of any decoration or signpost. This natural opening is ACCEPTANCE.

It required attention, openness, humility. It required the recognition that something small could be enough, that something ordinary could be extraordinary.

You say yes to the mess by surrendering control-by opening yourself up to the capriciousness of the crowd, with no guarantee of success for your efforts. Ultimately, that takes one quality above all others: courage.

Make your default mode one of generosity. It's a nice way to live, and it's contagious.

As I became a more and more successful "professional Christian," I began to sense the depth of my ignorance about the country I was talking about. On the road, I'd be parroting the party line, saying that America was godless and doomed. But the America I was actually experiencing (for the first time as a resident) was not doomed. It was more complicated and wonderful than I had ever imagined. I began to get the feeling that maybe I was on the wrong side. The

I'd be adrift in an ocean of uncertainty." Yes, and perhaps that's the only honest place to be. Another name for uncertainty is humility. No one ever blew up a mosque, church, or abortion clinic after yelling, "I could be wrong.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it isn't open.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.