Quotes About Openness

Scary to be vulnerable, to open your heart but, oh, the out of this world feeling as you savor the pleasure!

Then her heart opened wider than it ever had before, and all she saw before her, everywhere she looked, were people to love.

A full heart has more room than an empty one.

We must keep our heart open in the very moment our instinct tells us to shut it down. When we transcend this critical point, we are finally and truly able to deepen our love and strengthen our bond.

When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.

You have to be ready for luck.

You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

Emphasis of title. The competent leader requires no "title" to give him the respect of his followers. The man who makes too much over his title generally has little else to emphasize. The doors to the office of the real leader are open to all who wish to enter, and his working quarters are free from formality or ostentation.

Maintain a spirit of open-mindedness.

estado mental deve ser de crença, não só de esperança ou vontade. A mente aberta é essencial para acreditar. Mentes fechadas não inspiram fé, coragem e crença.

Lembre-se disso e mantenha as portas da sua mente hermeticamente fechadas contra todos os pensamentos que procuram limitá-lo de qualquer maneira e você assim ficará a salvo.

The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds....

Don't look for the precise and local. Simply; do not be narrow minded.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended.

To put it again in other words: it is rather a good thing to lose arguments.

The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds—so those who delay developing their theories are better off.

shame-free policy is maximal transparency, even transparency of intentions.

only suckers wait for answers; questions are not made for answers):

by exposing an idea in raw form, allows it to be judged by the public.

Puede que no sea algo exigible desde el punto de vista ético, pero la política más eficaz y más libre de vergüenza es la transparencia máxima, la cual incluye la transparencia de intenciones.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it

anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider, not to look away but to look more attentively.

The alternative is not to hold everything we think in doubt but rather to maintain an openness to new experience and knowledge—