Quotes About Openness

The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.

The thing that I really want to try and do is just live my life really openly and honestly. I think there's so much power in that, as simple as it is.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

I don't tell anyone what they should do (drugs). It's like this music is so full of power and energy you don't really need to take anything if you just open up and let the music take you.

Love is not blind-It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet

You know no nation has a monopoly on good things, each one has something that the others could well afford to adopt.

I gave people who didn't know what to say the best advice I could muster, which was that it was better to say anything rather than pretend that nothing was wrong.

Her new mantra was a piece of wisdom given to her by a friend of my sister who specialized in palliative care: "Make Plans and Cancel Them.

There's an entry point to any relationship.

We have to remember that the way things are is not the only possible way that they could be.

If everything I perceive is based on what I already know, how will I ever perceive anything new? If I never perceive anything new, how will I change? How will I grow?

when someone says he wants to be perfectly straightforward with us, we should be on the lookout for a concealed dagger.

Always consider the possibility that you may be wrong. Especially when you are absolutely certain you are right.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.

Be attached to nothing and open to everything.

The particulars of new places grabbed me and held me, the sweep of new coasts, cold, lovely dawns. The world was incomprehensibly large, and there was still so much to see.... I liked surrendering to the onrush, the uncertainty, the serendipity of the road. And I generally liked being a stranger, an observer, often surprised.

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds

The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.

Unlike them, however, her path was not through daring deeds or the study of magic or the use of miraculous powers. She had been gifted with something almost as rare: an open and eager mind. She had the gift of watching and listening, the gift of taking all the hurts and happenings of others' lives and understanding their purpose.