Quotes About Openness

It expresses itself in an ease in talking of accomplishments or short-comings with directness and honesty, since one is in friendly relationship to facts.

Flexibility. To be flexible is to be able to respond to change without inappropriate attachments binding one to the past.

Flexibility, in contrast, is the natural consequence of self-esteem. A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet, unemcumbered by irrelevant attachments, able to respond quickly to novelty because it is open to seeing.

When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.

Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception

Maybe it's the best answer of all. If more people could admit they really don't know, maybe there never would have been a War.

Rightmindness is overrated, Goddard said. I'd rather have a mind that's clear than a mind that's right.

Dove tu vedi vuoto, io vedo possibilità

Rightmindedness is overrated," Goddard said. "I'd rather have a mind that's clear than one that's 'right.

Right mindedness is overrated, Goddard said. I'd rather have a mind that's clear than one that's 'right.

Only idiots build walls.

Don't be ridiculous," Goddard said. "Only idiots build walls.

Sometimes finding the obvious means coming in with no expectations.

Sus ojos, muy abiertos, temblaban, pero sin miedo, sin vacilación. Aquellos ojos: lo dejaban entrar y salir todo. Ella era animal, y humana.

Oyleyse okur,catlak Jimmy`i bir an icin birakip Arthur`a gecelim -ki hic sorun degil- yazma tarzimi kastediyorum burada : sa[a sola sicarim ve siz de hic zorlanmadan benimle gelirsiniz. Hic onemi yoktur,gorursunuz.

I think it's very important to live a varied and interesting life before you try to write one.

It does your mind good to talk to people different from you.

Second, always speak the truth without fear.

Hold everything loosely.

I don't believe in rules. I think that there are probably always exceptions to everything

Don't be serious, be sincere.

That we may accept a limitation on our actions but never, under no circumstances, must we accept restriction on our thinking.

We may accept limitations on our actions but never . . . on our thinking.

Stillness is a reflection of our growing openness to the unpredictable unfolding of the world as it is, a freedom from the constant effort to bend things to our liking, to make them conform to our conditioned notions of good and bad.