Quotes About Openness

One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.

I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the need to do everything themselves, but I am not one of them.

Conflict can't be avoided in our public lives any more than we can avoid conflict with people we love. One of the great strengths of our society is that we can express these conflicts openly.

Often my best work comes from somebody trying to stretch me in a direction that I wouldn't normally want to go in. It's not something I fight at all.

I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.

I've learned a lot, been a sponge and just continued to take criticism in stride in good positive energy.

Despite facing rejections, I did not give in or take any other route. I was always open to face rejections. I took it in a positive stride.

I want to be silly, and that's being authentic just as much as being open and honest. It's authentic to make weird clown horn noises when it strikes you.

Looking back on the Tiananmen movement, it is striking how modest the protesters' demands were: an end to press censorship and restrictions on demonstrations; openness about the income of state leaders; increased funding for education.

The best strips are the most honest. That's just the truth of it.

The day you don't mess with somebody, that would be exclusive rather than inclusive. I strive to be inclusive.

I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.

My mother's openness has remained inspiring to me. I strive to be a skeptic, in the best sense of that word: I question everything, and yet I'm open to everything. And I don't have immovable beliefs. My values shift and grow with my experiences - and as my context changes, so does what I believe.

In my work, I'm always striving to be as honest as possible.

You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?

A Jewish community that is diverse and openly embraces all who seek to lead actively Jewish lives will be a Jewish community that is stronger and more enduring for generations to come.

In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.

I always have to re-learn the important lesson that the work is always stronger when I listen and take input from others.

I have no secrets. I decided very early on in life that the strongest position was to be completely open.

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

I know it's cheesy, but if you listen to the universe, it gives you pointers. I strongly believe if you keep your ears open and eyes open, your path will become clear. You just have to make sure you don't ignore it.

When I was 12, my brother and I moved back to Honolulu to live with our mother. Hawaii felt like another universe, and reflecting on it, I am struck by how much more open and accepting it was.

When we presume that we are better than people who need structure and guidance, we lack one of the most crucial ingredients for change: humility.

I find it hard to write with writers sometimes because of their way of writing. Some are heavily focused on structure, but I have more of a 'Let's go with it' mindset. I like to be creative, and when I hear something that inspires me, I'll come up with a melody, a lyric to that melody, and take it from there. I try to keep it open.