Quotes About Openness

You have to tell. It can't be a secret. Secrets make everyone alone.

What a maddening life it is, to be committed to a way of living while also remaining open to all possibilities.

Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight

We have to expect the unexpected and keep going, even without a map or direction.

The gift of empathy opens us up when the tendency to shut down and turn away from the world is often at its greatest.

There is no such thing as "it can't happen here.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

We can't plan life.All we can do is be available for it.

In fact, there's nothing like travel to swing wide all the artistic channels,

No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas, is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible.

being excited about being wrong because that means you've discovered something new.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.

Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious gift, an open mind, but it's not passive. You've got to nurture it like a bed of roses; otherwise it will wither and die. Make sure you don't close off your mind to things you find strange. Sometimes they may be the only truth.

My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.

Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Being humble is the key to learning because it is the ego that keeps our minds closed to new ideas.

Therefore, the best policy for learning new things is to always keep a beginner's mind.

Tell me, why are the old friends kind, And ever the tenderest, too? Youth has no art, but an open mind, And its love is sincere and true.

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

Do humanity and yourself a favor. Never, ever, give just a one-sentence response to the question, "Where are you from?" Give the asker some fuel for his tank, some fodder for his trough.