Quotes About Openness

in keeping with the Hacker Ethic, no artificial boundaries were maintained.

I once got a fortune cookie at the China Star Café in Muncie, Indiana that said, "Surround yourself with people who are what you are not." That cookie was more useful than all five months of Philosophy 101 I sat through.

Information wants to be free.

Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.

When we'd first moved home, I had missed the ground bustle, but had since fallen in love with the feeling of the open air around us, the play of winds among the thinner branches, the illusion that one could be all alone.

Don't question my generosity. Such gifts should be accepted without argument.

His way might be the right way. It is certainly one way. Why not let him proceed and see what happens?

There is nothing for you to fear in being honest.

We're here because it's honest. I feel like being honest tonight.

Her friendliness and openness were quite at odds with her rather forbidding appearance.

To this day I don't understand this country well. The cheery optimism. The lack of concern about the past. The openness to strangers who simply show a smile and give a firm handshake

We often talk about "getting out of our comfort zone," but rarely about entering someone else's.

That was the inherent contradiction. This was a nation backed into a corner. They did not want to open up, and yet they had no choice but to move toward engagement if they wanted to survive. They had built the entire foundation of their country on isolationism and wanting to kill Americans and South Koreans, yet they needed to learn English and feed their children with foreign money.

We invite you, in reading this book, to cast away your preconceptions and enter, with us, a magical world where all things are connected to you, and you are connected to all things.

If you control your reading too much, you cease to be involved in it.

Never dismiss anyone's value until you know him.

Don't become too attached to your own myopia. Just because you've found a way to do things doesn't mean it's the way to do things. There are so many different ways in which to navigate this so-called life. Be open to experiencing more than one.

That's something I never want to do: I never want to think I know it all, because I don't. There's always more people with more advice, and I just want to soak all that up and make my sporting toolbox as full as I can get it.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

I think we've built a bit of a culture and a market around people who are open and seek out that social interaction.

Connecting with your fans in that way is just the coolest thing, because I am very fortunate that my fans let me be very open on my social media - never really judge me for that or anything.

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Of course, deciding whether or not to have children is a personal decision, but I would encourage couples to stay open to the idea that having a child or adopting provides both personal and societal benefits.

There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.