Quotes About Openness

For so long you thought the ambition of racist language was to denigrate and erase you as a person. After considering Butler's remarks, you begin to understand yourself as rendered hypervisible in the face of such language acts. Language that feels hurtful is intended to exploit all the ways that you are present. Your alertness, your openness, and your desire to engage actually demand your presence, your looking up, your talking back, and, as insane as it is, saying please.

makes language hurtful. You can feel everyone lean in. Our very being exposes us to the address of another, she answers. We suffer from the condition of being addressable. Our emotional openness, she adds, is carried by our addressability. Language navigates this.

People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself.

And I am not doing any thing that I would not do in front of you.

I have been extremely positive with almost all new people. And why, let me ask, shan't I be? When you think, you have a lot of to say for someone you know for a short time.

But he was a stranger and we tend to believe whatever we first hear about strangers.

Richard Stallman, a free-lance computer programmer, loudly proclaimed that information should be free.

People of the world will never know everything about you. What is more important is for you to take some time to know everything around you... and learn from them.

The world becomes smaller when some people shuts the door for others.

Show your love to the world and don't keep it to yourself. That's what love is for!

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.

Non troverai mai la verità se non sei disposto ad accettare anche quello che non ti aspetti.

Whoever cannot seek the unforseen, sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Not-learning is the conscious decision not to learn something that you could learn.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

I believe it's fine to give up books even after a page; there's so much to read in the world that will delight you, so why should you work against the grain?

That is life's talent. To accept new things.

The universe belongs to the curious.

Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.

Please release your expectations and open yourself to all possibilities.

Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.

Try not to saddle yourself with too distinct a personality too early in life. It might not suit you later on. Say