Quotes About Openness

You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself.

You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the window and it turns out to be a way that you never imagined.

I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it; I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn't.

I'm saying what a lot of people would want to say but are too embarrassed.

"Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!" But, over time, I've come to agree with Dan Savage.

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

If I'm in a relationship and my girlfriend is sleeping with other people, I don't need to know who it is; I just want to know how she feels about it.

Being nonconfrontational allows people to feel like they can say anything they want.

The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

Information wants to be free. Believe it.

I don't feel like we're setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don't want to set up an attitude where we're telling people 'You can't listen to our music if you don't have a college degree.

Everybody can doubt, and they are free to doubt, and I don't want to convince anyone.

There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

I'm in a state of learning, and I don't have any set-in-stone ideas about what shows or even what eras I want to pursue.

I will aknowledge that the matter is a secret but not one of my own, so I shall freely speak of it

The young were better at making friends. The young had nothing to lose

With no expectations anything can become.

God can handle all your needs, mend the heart that hurts and bleeds, give the lonely something true that changes lives and makes them new. Jesus heals the fractured soul, makes it breathe, makes it whole, gives us hope when hope is gone, breaks the darkness, offers dawn, to all who follow, all who dare— the door is open, love is there.

truth is the one thing no one needs to be protected from.

We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them... Environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative in the long run than more open-ended environments. Good ideas may not want to be free, but they want to connect, fuse, recombine.... They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete. The single maxim that runs through the book: Where Good Ideas Come From .

What if the eternities are open? What if there is no set eternity to which we are heading? No teleology, as Bergson argued, to which life must aim. What if new emergences occur on the grandest scale of all and God Himself is participating in a dynamic and open existence?

Y]ou are here to learn something. Don't try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

Lastly, you are here to learn something. Don't try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

All information should be free. If you don't have access to the information you need to improve things, how can you fix them? A free exchange of information, particularly when the information was in the form of a computer program, allowed for greater overall creativity.