Quotes About Openness

We don't need to be blind to this continuous process. The rate of change in recent times has been unprecedented, which caught us off guard. But now we know: We are, and will remain, perpetual newbies. We need to believe in improbable things more often. Everything is in flux, and the new forms will be an uncomfortable remix of the old. With effort and imagination we can learn to discern what's ahead more clearly, without blinders.

The internet is less a creation dictated by economics than one dictated by sharing gifts.

We are, and will remain, perpetual newbies. We

The idea here is to find out how to make the canvas of our lives continuously empty - to learn how to approach each day as a blank slate, open to any possibility. How do we lose the cornrows of the past, the deep tracks we've dug on a day-to-day basis that keep us bound to the conventions of who we have been and who we are supposed to be?

I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.

The less we cement ourselves to our certainties, the fuller our lives can be.

Loneliness is not about what happens when you are alone, but what happens when you are with others. It is about how willing you are to open your heart and allow another to get close to you.

It's useless." "You will find it," he insisted, misinterpreting her meaning, "if your heart is open. So a way must be made for your heart to be open. I must change part of our bargain." Summer lowered her brows. "Are you planning to manipulate me again, Mr. Ollenburger?" "No manipulate. Only say this—if you teach my son, you must go to church with us. Church, like laughter, is good for the soul.

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

Speak openly. There is no one I trust more than Lutian. (Adara) He's a half-wit, my queen. (Xerus) Half-wit, whole-wit, I have enough of them to know to keep silent. So speak, good counselor, and let the queen judge which of the two of us is the greater fool present. (Lutian)

You will learn no more once you have decided you know

Neatness is the hobogoblin of little minds

My faith is big enough to accept all of God's wonders.

You see, faith means listening to your heart, not just your heard. It's not about ignoring facts; it's about being willing to see around them sometimes.

Sports broadcasting is very open now. In the beginning you did encounter more traditional attitudes and get comments. But I'm talking about 12 years ago.

despite its openness, America has its own sacred cows. One such sacred cow is that America is number one and will be number one forever

When China built walls and cut off communication with the rest of the world, it fell behind. When China opened up to the world, it thrived. To guarantee its continued long-term success, China should completely abandon its two-thousand-year-old Middle Kingdom mentality and decide to become the most open society in terms of economic engagement with the rest of the world.

The common cause of the massive blindness of the Chinese officials in the nineteenth century was a huge Chinese philosophical assumption that China was a great self-sufficient Middle Kingdom that did not need to engage the world. As the Chinese emperor Qianlong famously told Lord Macartney, China had everything it needed. It didn't need the rest of the world. That painful century of humiliation finally led to China opening up.

Ultimately, physical, psychological and spiritual mastery are one and the same. The egoless self is open, flexible, supple, fluid and dynamic in body, mind and spirit.

What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.

Last night I got up to pin a star under my top bunk. It stands for Matthew, who's a planet all to himself. In order to get to know that planet you have to do away with rules and prejudices and language, and throw yourself at it without being frightened of traveling through space.

We chose too small a word in the decade of my birth—tolerance—to make the world we want to live in now. We opened to the racial difference that had been there all along, separate but equal, and to a new infusion of religions, ethnicities, and values. But tolerance doesn't welcome. It allows, endures, indulges. In the medical lexicon, it is about the limits of thriving in an unfavorable environment.

Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised.