Quotes About Openness

IF YOU HAVE TO HIDE YOUR TRUE FEELINGS FROM YOUR FRIENDS, THEY'RE NOT YOUR FRIENDS.

24 YOU CAN'T CHANGE ANYTHING IF YOU CAN'T CHANGE YOUR MIND.

If you want to have an interesting dinner conversation, be interested. If you want to have interesting things to write, be interested. If you want to meet interesting people, be interested in the people you meet—their lives, their history, their story. Where are they from? How did they get here? What have they learned? By practicing the art of being interested, the majority of people can become fascinating teachers; nearly everyone has an interesting story to tell.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." —INDIRA GANDHI

You can't be curious and on the attack at the same moment.

That's it, just two quick questions: "What's something that would be impossible?" and, "What would make it possible?" What's so powerful about those two questions? They move a person from a defensive, closed position or a selfish, excuse-making stance into an open, thinking attitude. And they make the person picture your vision as a reality and cooperate in thinking strategically about reaching that reality.

Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.

But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to give up the truth of what we feel or the truth of our reality. Nor does it allow us to minimize the humanity of those who hurt us. Rather, we are asked to know ourselves enough that we can stay open to the truth of others, even when their truth or their inability to live up to their truth has hurt us.

In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.

should be to assemble not only a newsroom that might resemble the community but also one that is as open and honest so that this diversity can function.

Rigid plans work best if you're building a skyscraper; with something as mysteriously human as giving birth, it's best, both literally and figuratively, to keep your knees bent.

Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

You think I'm pretty Without any make-up on You think I'm funny When I tell the punch line wrong I know you get me So I'll let my walls come down, down.

He laughed, a big, open-mouthed laugh that made her think of words beginning with the letter O.

We all have that one friend that walks into your home like its their home

You can call me Grandpa, if that does it for you.

The future is unwritten.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

You know, I don't know what the future will bring, but I'm ready for whatever comes!

Your future is only as bright as your mind is open.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.