Quotes About Openness

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes.

Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration.

I've never really had specific goals and stuff like that - I think I sort of learned early on that if you kind of let life roll in at your feet, you will get a lot of great stuff if you are just aware and open to it.

It's not appropriate to pass judgment when we specifically ask people to voice their opinions... even if you ask a question and agree with the answer.

Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

We are living in an open world. There is a freedom of speech and, clearly, freedom of speculation.

I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that.

We have to overthrow the idea that it's a diversion from 'real' work when scientists conduct high-quality research in the open. Publicly funded science should be open science. Improving the way that science is done means speeding us along in curing cancer, solving the problem of climate change and launching humanity permanently into space.

It's about being open to what comes your way. I came to New York and saw 'Spelling Bee.' I said to myself, 'That's the greatest show ever, and I can't believe I'm not a part of it.' I felt the only way I'm going to get to be a part of something that good is to live in New York. So I moved to New York and ended up in 'Spelling Bee.'

If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.

But when I'm asked a question I will answer it honestly. There is no spin here.

I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

I think this is the special character of the people from Seville. They have a really open spirit and receive everyone like family.

When your chest is open, and you're breathing deeply, it lifts your spirits.

Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey.

I was excited to hear others talking of God. Most people in show business have some strong spirituality but don't talk about it openly.

The fact that I am not Jewish by religion does not prevent me from connecting to the Jewish nation's spirituality.

I don't think of me as, quote, 'coming out,' because I was never 'in.' I rarely, if ever, spoke about my private life and remain as neutral as possible.

I've always spoken my mind and from the heart.

People I've never spoken to before come up to me and give me a hug.