Quotes About Openness

While I was young, getting money, a hustler, I was sharp. But I never thought I was too smart to learn something new. Keep your receptors open, and don't get too egotistical to think you know more than everybody else in the room.

One of my great heroes, John Berger, he's in his 80s now. One of the reasons that he's remained young and all-around fantastic is his ongoing receptivity to new things. I think that's important.

When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me a very young age.

I have to say, my family's always been incredibly open and encouraging of any way I might want to express myself. At a very young age, they accepted that my outlet would be writing, and comedic writing, and they were pretty accepting of that.

I can't keep my trap shut in interviews - I'm not very good at dissembling.

Citizens, not less generous than myself, let your most precious moments be employed in causing the past to be forgotten; let all my fellow-citizens swear never to recall the past; let them receive their misled brethren with open arms, and let them, in future, be on their guard against the traps of bad men.

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.

I'm a big believer in digging deep when I travel to a new place.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Traveling is not a hindrance for me; it's something I actually enjoy.

I haven't done much traveling in my life at all - if you're seeing these places for the first time, so am I. So I decided not to pretend. I'm not this know-it-all host walking around claiming to know everything.

We're so immersed in ourselves at home, but when you're travelling, it's important to be open.

Travelling, in general, opens your mind to so many different cultures and different ways of thinking and different ways of seeing stuff. I definitely feel like it has an influence on my music to be a bit more broader and a bit more open.

Art is fluid, and it travels. You have to let music take you where it wants to take you. You can't necessarily be the controller.

Given my travels, I've learned to be more open and feel much more comfortable experimenting with food.

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

I think it is incredibly important to be open and accessible and treat people fairly and look them in the eye and tell them what is on your mind.

I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.

Net Neutrality - a guiding principle of the Internet since its beginning - means that content is all treated equally.

Life is very complicated. I look to collaborate with artistic people and to go into an endeavor without judgment and to hopefully be treated with the same.

Progress can't happen just from trans people being out in the open. Society also has to truly accept transgender individuals. If society is capable of treating us equally, then we can and will live authentically.

I've been very open about my health challenge because I think it's really important to let my constituents know that in spite of the fact that I am still in treatment, nothing about this treatment prevents me from doing my job.