Quotes About Openness

Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

I've seen people who come to work say, 'No, I'm doing it this way, and that's that.' I'm the opposite - I like being out of my element; it's where I like to live.

My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.

I stand for a Germany that is more colorful, cool, and optimistic about the future.

Honestly is always an option, even when you don't think it is.

I'm open to making any kind of music, or maybe making no music ever again. That's also an option, always. Who knows what'll happen.

I always want my options to be open.

I want to keep different options for different futures open all the time.

I want to keep my options open and make sure I'm doing the best thing for Hannah.

I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.

The organizations that I've worked with, whether I have gotten cut or whether I have excelled, the always communicated with me honestly and openly. The ones that weren't so good, the communication was iffy.

From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

Most people would accept that people come to London from across the world, from all kinds of backgrounds, and are accepted here irrespective of their origins.

One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own.

You have to go to other countries to realize Taipei is a place where there is diversity of thought.

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

I keep all irons in the fire because, 'You never know.' It's because I have to, and otherwise, life gets boring.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

We just allow anybody to listen to our music. All ages are allowed!

We in the so called 'Western civilisations' have so much to learn from other cultures, and they would stand to gain so much by learning from ours. We don't have all the answers - far from it... but nor do any other culture or religion.

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.