Quotes About Openness

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead.

To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.

I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

I have learnt not to make plans in life, because a lot of time you make a plan that is not going to work for you

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.

"My door is always open - bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.

In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do.

I learned the importance of being nonjudgmental, taking what happens and trying to make it work.That's something you should apply to life.

Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work.

I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

The very basis of the work- the very core of the work, is that everything we do can come always new.