Quotes About Openness

You cannot fully open up to love, if you build up defenses that nothing can hurt you again.

If we are not willing to risk all, again, then we are precluded from intimacy.

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.

show my trust in others in order to build their trust in me.

Because infinite players prepare themselves to be surprised by the future, they play in complete openness. It is not an openness as in candor, but an openness as in vulnerability. It is not a matter of exposing one's unchanging identity, the true self that has always been, but a way of exposing one's ceaseless growth, the dynamic self that has yet to be.

To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility whatever the cost to oneself.

Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open. Have you been watching Oprah again?

if you spin in a circle perhaps avoiding corners

Keep your small mind open," said Nana, wagging a crooked pinkie finger at Jannie. "That's if you ever want it to grow bigger and don't want to remain a small person all your life.

Please don't shut out love- it's the best thing about life

The right inspiration, [...]. That's the beauty of creation and imagination. Remaining open to what comes. The more seasoned the artist, the more capable he is of responding in the moment.

In short, I support everyone and, uh, everything in this room.

I talked some more, let my tongue wag, let my mind run free, and it felt pretty good. It's a wonderful thing to have somebody in your life whom you can say absolutely anything to. Not to have that is almost unthinkable to me.

We have grown comfortable not having our perspective challenged. It's unhealthy.

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.

Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed.

We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.

There are some folks at the teacher's union who aren't big fans of mine, in part, because I have been open and want to make sure everybody is sitting at the table as we talk about education.

I'm pretty much open to anyone who's unique and has mutual appreciation in the music as BTS.

People find it difficult to accept something that is sincere and unique.

I am always open to working with debutant directors, as they bring a new perspective to a script. That motivates me and helps me choose unique scripts.

If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can.

I think that with Donald Trump, the United States will have a president who is not ideologically limited; that is, he is an open person, much more interested in success, efficiency, and results than political theories.

What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us.