Quotes About Openness

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

It is not the absence of defensiveness that characterizes learning teams but the way defensiveness is faced

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth.

To build strength and flexibility, we should open our minds to people and ideas we don't like, and pick fights with those we do.

Few things in war can be as costly as doctrinal rigidity.

Knowing" can be useful, but learning not to know creates a powerful openness that is inconceivable until it is experienced.

Only when we realize that beliefs are not the truth will the door of possibility open so that we can experience what "is" true.

separating the truth from what's believed. This action allows you to let go of your own knowledge and open up to freshly experience this moment without presumption.

We discover that the richness of life isn't all created by people, events, and acquisitions, but by our ability to open up and fully be with whatever is occurring—present in heart, body, mind, and connecting fully with others and with life.

By exploring how fidelity to God requires an acknowledgement of the provisional nature of our beliefs, 'A/theism' was designed to offer us a greater appreciation of God's greatness, a renewed openness to learning from other people's understanding of God and a deeper commitment to a faith that is enhanced, rather than enslaved, by a particular Christian tradition.

The hint speaks to the heart and will only be heard by those with a sensitive and open ear. This powerless discourse of the hint can be seen at work in Jesus' parables, which can only truly be heard by those 'with ears to hear'.

Den gamle kærlighed - at holde og blive holdt om, at sikre og være sikret, kærligheden pga. svaghed og fortvivlelse - har det lagt bag sig. Det lever i en kærlighed, der omfatter kærlighedsfjernhed og uelskethed, en kærlighed, der omfatter en ensomhed, som både er nøgtern og glødende, en kærlighed, der ikke vil noget bestemt og derfor er åben og til rådighed, en kærlighed, det heler kærlighedssår, idet den også elsker disse.

And there is, of course, a filter within yourself. When a book, or magazine article, or idea makes you uncomfortable, notice your exact reaction. If you're bored, move on. If you feel threatened, stay with it and see what troubles you.

It is always worth asking yourself: "how could I be wrong?

I can't say beginner programmers should open up all these abstractions. But what I am saying is you should certainly consider the possibility of opening them. Not completely reject the idea. It's worthwhile seeing if the direct route is quicker than the packaged route.

There are several major improvisation principles. One is that you should "accept every offer.

Accepting every offer by using "yes … and" language, a cornerstone of improvisation, facilitates building up ideas.

Just as Wiseman's research demonstrates that we can make our own luck, including by lowering our rigid expectations and being open to new ones, Tim Russert made his own luck.

Effective plussing requires that people let go of the need to control every detail.

A humanist is a person who can say: I am human, nothing written down is strange to me.

Sei bitte nicht naiv. Dieses Land ist so alt oder so jung wie alle anderen." "Aber hier habe ich das Gefühl, dass noch alles möglich ist.

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

Mobility A surprisingly large number of answers related peace to mobility. For example: Peace is being free to move around and visit friends and family. (Twenty-four-year-old female, remote colline in Busiga) When you can visit others there is peace. (Eighteen-year-old man, Ruhororo IDP camp) A place where you can come and go as you wish, that is peace. (Twenty-year-old male student, Bwiza)

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.