Quotes About Openness

Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them.

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

It is hard to learn when we think we know something.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

Education has to endow you with an eagerness to surrender.

I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody.

I try to examine everything to see if there's another approach.

With every person you meet, there is a new and exciting experience to be had.

There is no one I'd like to exclude when I design. It's not like I'm trying to design for everyone. Probably can't do that. Yet I try not to exclude anyone.

I'll read a book. I'll watch a documentary or a film or whatever. I'll go to an art exhibit and just try and open myself to influence.

I've done nudity. I'm an exhibitionist. It doesn't matter.

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.

Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.

When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

I don't have any expectations.

I don't have any expectations of anything.

I want people to feel like there's nothing they have to be worried about laughing at. There's nothing that can't be made fun of.

In life, and in basketball, if you lay the truth out there, people don't have to guess.

It's easy to ask other people to open up and to judge them if they don't, but it's always difficult to lead by example.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.