Quotes About Openness

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Don't drive people away with your presence. Your friends shouldn't become afraid and so cautious when they are with you. Let them feel free around you.

Have a good heart towards strangers and new friends.

Every friend was once a stranger.

remember that there's always another way of seeing things: that's the beginning of wisdom.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,' he wrote. 'Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

We must return to the teachable nature of our first love.

We want Jesus to come to our house, but we're going to question Him when He gets there.

Ein Junge, der bereit war, neue Menschen kennenzulernen. Ein Junge, der neue Abenteuer erleben wollte. Und vor allem: ein Junge der stolz darauf war, anders zu sein.

When we think we are absolutely right, we stop seeking new information. To be right is to be certain, and to be certain stops us from being curious.

Richard Bandler suggested that one of the major blocks to creativity was the feeling of knowing you are right.

Psychiatrist David Shainberg argued that mental illness, which appears chaotic, is actually the reverse. Mental illness occurs when images of the self become rigid and closed, restricting an open creative response to the world.

Consider the world we could live in if all of our local and global leaders, if all of our personal and professional friends and foes, recognized the defeasibility of their beliefs and acted accordingly. That sure sounds like progress to me. But of course I could be wrong.

Creativity requires a willingness to look stupid.

Leaders who leadershift must be like water. They have to be fluid. Water finds a way, then makes a way.

No matter how much I know (or think I know), I can learn from this situation.

If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.

William A. Hewitt, Chairman of Deere and Company, says, "To be a leader you must preserve all through your life the attitude of being receptive to new ideas. The quality of leadership you will give will depend upon your ability to evaluate new ideas, to separate change for the sake of change from change for the sake of me.

you must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

Adapt to them—don't expect them to adapt to you.

If you're in the habit of listening only to the facts and not the person who expresses them, change your focus - and really listen.

An open mind is the beginning of self-discovery and growth. We can't learn anything new until we can admit that we don't already know everything." —Erwin G. Hall

many people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. They

Coach John Wooden would not have asked, "Why is it so difficult to realize that others are more likely to listen to us if first we listen to them?