Quotes About Openness

In 2008, Obama rode to victory in good part by wearing the openness face, casting the Bush administration as intrusive, secretive hawks who had little regard for individual privacy or civil liberties.

I love seeing the videos of people who go and talk to these neo-Nazis because they're like, 'I'm just here to have a conversation and understand.' Having a conversation about it and talking about your emotions without judgement. You have to be able to be completely open, because they're not going to be, but you could turn a new leaf in their life.

Proponents of change within Vietnam's government know their country will be more stable and prosperous if it continues to open up. But principled arguments don't always carry the day.

The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

I'm open to all religions. Respecting Scientology is just like respecting any other religious view.

A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or to the audience. I want to ask their opinion on my point of view and discuss it with them.

When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

Well-Spirit," she said conversationally, "since I've had such bad luck in finding the kind of husband I always thought I wanted, I'm leaving it up to you. No requirements, no conditions. What I wish for is…the right man for me. I'm prepared to be open-minded.

Heaven forbid that we should spend an evening with people who are not exactly the same as ourselves. We might learn something.

You should have come to me first." "I didn't think you'd listen, or agree with what I had to say." "I'll always listen. I won't always agree.

The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.

We are raw and honest, or we are nothing.

But watching you and {him}, Ket ... you've made me realize that I want to be open to how God leads. To whomever He might guide my heart, whether it be Duncan or some other man. Because watching you ... heal? Blossom in the shelter of {his} love?' She shook her head, her eyes filling with tears. 'That has been the best blessing of all since arriving here.

People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.

The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself.

I desire to live my life this way,... Not caged by the walls of fear, but in anticipation of the bridges to magnificence. Help me find the way.

You let a possibility into your mind, you let it into your life.

was all right for life not to be perfect. If you let it, if you didn't close yourself off from the chance for it, life could still be good. Better than good.

Why limit yourself to just one best friend?

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

Give people a chance and they'll usually surprise you.

Check your assumptions. In fact, check your assumptions at the door.

When the mind rests open, blank, Utterly without the apprehension of appearing objects, This is the moment of the universal ground.