Quotes About Openness

Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only way to stop the story from running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants.

When I met you I was moving like a blind arrow shot in time of need. I was flint-sharp, flint-primitive. I was aim, arrow, and target. I wanted to be wounded again. I did not want to seal myself against life. I would rather be cut than dry.

Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open -- the only way to stop the story running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants.

Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.

Didn't they like you? Didn't they, like you, need a heart that was a book with no last page? Turn the leaves.

lo misterioso me inquieta siempre, es harto contrario a mi carácter, abierto hasta la imprudencia.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

I don't really have any "must work withs," but I would never refuse if a celebrity or fellow musician came along who is willing to write or sing or play on a Lita song.

I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like that.

My manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.

You can learn a little bit from everybody, so you should be able to work a bit with everybody.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.

When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they use it, and if not, they ignore it!

I'm depending on other people to take the work and run. And if they run in so many directions, they sort of cancel each other out. So the meaning is always open.

It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.

To me, if I'm reading a fantastic story or I go on a nice first date and I have a wonderful time, I'm not gonna complain because it didn't work out. I'm gonna go on a second date.

We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from bringing their ideas to a project.

Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.