Quotes About Openness

Keep listening. With open ears, you will be one of the few who learn.

I'm probably getting too familiar with him, but there's something about him that makes me feel like I would tell him anything. He asks these incredibly direct questions, things that some of my closest friends have never even thought to ask, and I'm inexplicably compelled to share all these deeply personal thoughts. He's like human Xanax or something.

I'm not sure, any more, I'm not sure about anything. But I'd happily try it. Try anything really, just to get back to myself.

She remembered the intensity of her desire to undress him, to be naked with him, the way she felt like she could say whatever she wanted and be fully understood and do whatever she wanted and be totally accepted. She remembered how easy it had all been, how open and bright, like being in a whitewashed room with all the windows wide open.

A life without secrets and lies was a simple path to walk

letting life show her her journey rather than imposing a journey onto her life

It's very odd, looking back, how accepting children can be of the oddest scenarios.

But when you started dating someone, you could never be sure what you were getting into. You had to give someone a chance to show you who he really was . . . and believe him when he did.

You can say whatever you like to me. I'm your oyster.

And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.

In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.

Ultimately, when you write from a vantage point of faith, humility, and openness to the world around you, people have to respond because those same truths are instilled in them.

We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.

I like to be a creative variable rather than sticking to a dogma.

I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.

It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.

The thing about me is that I love variety. I like to try new things, and I don't want to be pinned back.

I have no monopoly and honestly, I wouldn't want anyone to get stuck in a role. There should be variety.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

There are a ton of A-list stars I'd love to dress - fashionistas like Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson. Also, Cate Blanchett would be fun and fabulous. My picks vary by the day and how I'm feeling. But, as a new, young designer, I'm open to working with everyone!

We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm.

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

If you want to eat more vegetarian food, you don't have to become a vegetarian. It doesn't have to be an identity overhaul.