Quotes About Openness

There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.

Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.

I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from other countries.

I get that some people just want to do work and keep their lives private. I think for me, it just felt like I needed to be open about who I am. It just felt like the right thing for me to do.

If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.

You don't force change; you just open yourself to its possibilities and let it work through you.

Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

It's so great to work with people you know and love and trust, but also open up the world.

When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them.

I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues.

By dismissing what could work, we dismiss our own growth. We dismiss what's possible.

We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

I don't want everyone toeing the same line. You have got to have discussions and someone might then think of a fresh strategy, which has to be encouraged.

My strategy is being as honest as possible.

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.

I get emotionally attached to someone if I talk to them on the street corner for five minutes.

I'd like to meet someone. I'm not scouring the streets, but I'll keep an eye out.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.