Quotes About Openness

I don't think there's a hobby that I haven't tried on.

I certainly tried to make the House a more open and effective place, and I believe I succeeded.

Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

When you're on a road trip, anything goes.

I haven't moved to Pakistan, but I love it here and I always keep extending my trips.

I write books to open people's minds, to present new perspectives, to make people realize that what they think is obvious is not so obvious, that you can look at a trivial situation from a different angle and suddenly reveal other meanings and levels.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.

If you got in my truck, you were listening to country music, and that's the way it was for a long time. I'm a little more open to other sources of music now, a lot more. But for the formative years, I was just very into country.

In high school, I came out to my friends as queer. My entire world opened up; this was a monumental step toward unveiling my truest self. I had my first girlfriend when I was sixteen years old.

Trump says what he thinks at that moment. He's a totem pole of transparency.

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

We believe that transparency is needed to create trust, and it's also needed to create a dialogue.

The single most important ingredient in the recipe for success is transparency because transparency builds trust.

Airbnb has proven that hospitality, generosity, and the simple act of trust between strangers can go a long way.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

PR is premised on truth, trust, and transparency.

You need to set a tone at the top that inspires trust - and encourages open and honest 2-way communication. So you hear the brutal facts, and you listen to the good news and the bad news - so that, in the spirit of continuous improvement, you can make changes.

We believe that transparency creates trust.

Russia would prefer to rebuild trust rather than allow it to further corrode. That's why, in July 2007, President Putin, in the spirit of strategic openness, proposed a truly collective effort at missile defense for Europe.

Trust leads to approachability and open communications.

Trust is what leads to the best conversations. People take chances and say what they really think when they trust the person they're engaging with.

I think I just grew up with this receptivity that a lot of people might shut down at an early age because of the influences around them. I didn't really have that, so it just allowed me to trust what I see, hear and feel a lot more. It allowed me to have more confidence in going with my gut.