Quotes About Openness

I don't think there should be a hierarchy of what is valid in the arts.

What created Silicon Valley was a culture of openness, and there is no future to Silicon Valley without it.

You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed; there has to be a way for the audience to get in and participate. I think that's a massively valuable discipline for any artist.

I like hearing from everybody and not just my co-screenwriters or producers. For example, while on set, I find it valuable to turn to my PA and ask, 'What do you think? Is this scene working? Do you like what you see? You got any ideas for that line there because that idea isn't working for me.'

Flea markets are fun because they are the ultimate treasure hunt. Be open to the fact that you never know what you'll find. The most beautiful, quirky, funny, scary pieces may not have an intrinsic value.

I think there's a value in people talking, it's just that we're in this culture now where everyone wants to 'out' each other at every moment, for their unconscious bias or whatever, and people then don't feel free to just talk. Do you know what I mean?

I think you feel more liberated in a foreign country. You're more open. You understand less about the social constructs that exist in a certain place, so you take people more at face value, and you're also taken more at face value, which makes you more able to be yourself.

The ideal is to build a culture of healthy discussion, where everyone's ideas are valued. At KIND, we want everyone to be comfortable challenging my or anyone else's ideas without ever feeling or making someone else feel that the questioning is a personal attack.

I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

How each of us comes for our own reasons." "Comes where?" "To be with them and listen to their message. What Stephen meant was that our motives are wrong. Our thinking is wrong. But if we come . . . with an open heart and mind, we will see the rightness of their declarations.

My favorite phrase those days, which I saw on a Family Dog poster, was "May the Baby Jesus Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind," which came from a Captain Beefheart record.

So much of life is about standing on the curb, willing to see what rolls up.

So much of life is about standing on the curb, wiling to see what rolls up.

To really live a life in search of knowledge, you must admit when you are wrong.

pero no existe la democracia perfecta, porque lo que define a una democracia de verdad es su carácter flexible, abierto, maleable –es decir, permanentemente mejorable–, de forma que la única democracia perfecta es la que es perfectible hasta el infinito.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.

Brain righties love open space.

Embrace the unknown. It is the only certainty.

Sometimes it's a mistake to look too far down the road. There are times in life when you can't be sure of the pattern. You have to meet circumstances as they are.

If I want to say no, I will, but for the right reasons. If I want to say yes, I will, but for the right reasons. Leave the consequences. Leave the finale. Leave the grand statements. The simplicity of feeling should not be taxed. I can't work out what this will cost or what either of us owe. The admission charge is never on the door, but you are open and I want to enter. Let me in. You do.

The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.