Quotes About Openness

Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

The best advice I've gotten in terms of that was someone who said, "People will surprise you if you let them."

The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.

With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

I like to allow accidents to happen, not to force them, and yet not let myself feel miserable if they do happen, because they are so often the best things.

I think the best things happen when you just let go and see what comes in. I find that that's always the most satisfying.

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.

Why limit yourself to just one best friend?

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.

I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.

Well, anything you want to make public is your public business.

Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.

Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.

When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid.

In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious—to train in dissolving the barriers that we erect between ourselves and the world—is the best use of our human lives.