Quotes About Openness

The orgy room at Dave's Baths was democracy made flesh; race and social standing were checked at the door along with clothes.

Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.

Thus in order to be a radical one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived.

If you're going to learn, you need to forget what you know.

If you are going to learn, you need to forget what you know. - Pokey

Love is where you find it.

In Breeze's business one got used to running across the skeletons in people's closets. If Billy's skeleton wore women's underwear, it didn't really matter. Homosexuality on Billy Winston was like acne on a leper.

Doing what he wanted to do and his boundless affinity for everything made Clay Demodocus a happy guy, but he was also shrewd enough not to be too open about his happiness. Animals might put up with that smiley shit, but people will eventually kill you for it.

Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility.

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

I'm not sure you would understand." The elf folded his hands in his lap. "I might not; that is true. But then, you cannot know for certain unless you try to explain.

I like to be wherever interesting things are happening. It's a terribly bad habit of mine.

Maintaining relationships may not be on your job description and may not have even been discussed, but for you to be successful, being open and curious is absolutely, unequivocally part of your job.

Transparency and openness also make people feel like they are trusted, respected, and connected to their organization—instead of being told what to do and kept in the dark.

In the end, when you enter a tough conversation, prepare yourself to take the high road, not be defensive, and remain open by practicing the strategies above. Instead of losing ground with someone in a conversation like this, it can actually become a moment that solidifies your relationship going forward.

Home should never be dark or full of shadows and secrets. It should be bright and full of open doors. It should be full of stories wanting to be told.

the more openly it remains a figure of speech, the more it is a dissimilar similitude and not literal, the more a metaphor reveals its truth.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they believe in nothing. They believe in everything.

Everyone was poor, but it was out in the open, not tucked out of sight below bridges.

And what to embrace.

Love disarms our emotional defenses; it makes us vulnerable to the other...in suspending our emotional defenses, love exposes our sympathy to the needs of the other.

This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.