Quotes About Openness

Secrecy spawns isolation, not success.

If you are your only source of information and ideas, you're in trouble.

To succeed, you have to be open to problems. You have to be open to failure. And as you go up the ladder, you gain the right to get more problems.

Teachability is an attitude of wanting to learn from every experience and every person.

If you want to break out of your own box, get into somebody's else's. Read broadly.

deaf ear is evidence of a closed mind.

When you don't want to change, you look for differences in others. When you are willing to change, you look for similarities.

Isn't it strange how we must surrender being right in order to find what's right, how humility enables us to be authentic, vulnerable, trustworthy, and intimate with others? People are open to those who are open to them.

The mark of someone with potential to grow is openness to the process. When you look at people who are eager to learn more, you can bet they are on the right track. And when you talk to people who just don't want any more instruction, then they have pretty much hit the wall. They are done.

The Buddhists have a phrase for this—"Beginner's Mind"—expressing how experience can be more vivid when it's not dulled by familiarity.

The trouble is that most people want to be right. The very best people, however, want to know if they're right

If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldnt be in it.

People are often lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. That's why If you've been hurt before, don't close your heart instead open it widely for the new chapter of love in your life.

The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Be open to new possibilities and let go of your concepts of how things should work out! God has GREAT plans for you Trust Him!!

Happiness is always possible, but we have to be willing and open to receive it--and sometimes that means letting go of what we're holding onto.

Being open is pretty cool. Just that some people will take you for granted. But is that your problem or theirs?

Don't seek love. Let love seek you. But love yourself enough to receive love with an open mind when it visits you!! Don't be a slave to your past experience. Collections of experience are called wisdom. Life is not about the past, we cannot do anything about. It's about the present that we can do something about.

I refuse to lie about how I feel. If you ask, I assume you want to know.

I just wish people would be real with me.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.