Quotes About Openness

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

Do you ever feel defensive when people ask you questions? Do you ever hesitate to ask a question, fearing it may reveal ignorance or doubt? If so, you are closing off the free flow of information and ideas your organization needs and potentially undermining relationships with those around you. In fact, avoiding questions can cause serious harm—and even disaster.

In organizations that discourage questions, on the other hand, questions and those who ask them may be seen as threatening. And when questions are not responded to openly or honestly, or are actually rejected, those who ask them can feel put down and marginalized.

I have come to realize that much of my success can be attributed to the fact that I believe in the capacity of the people who have worked with me. I truly think that the leader who tries to know it all and tells everyone what to do is doomed to failure.

We have forgotten how to see anew, the way a child sees, everything brimming with the excitement of discovery. We have labeled and categorized everything, and we have lost the newness of seeing. Practice seeing your relatives, your family, your life partner, and your closest friends as totally new people every day. Put aside yesterday's images and concepts of who they are, and experience them anew, each day.

Once a person falls in the fields of love, all the rules are already broken; the lover becomes open an exalted in ways that transcend the local issues as well as the commonly held beliefs. Love, like genuine devotion, will find a way. Where duty becomes replaced with love, a greater and deeper faith will blossom forth.

Use your knowledge to ask questions, not to tell people what you know.

She's a woman who enjoys the liberal use of first names.

there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.

It means there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.

You need to be willing to wipe the slate clean and admit that you may not know everything about running. This is the best advice I can give for staying injury-free

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Losing a bit of control opens the heart and the mind to what the future will bring.

Powerful Leaders are intentional about not repeating history by always being open to the unprecedented; what's in your future?

While the Trump administration has made hostility to the press a virtual policy, it has also been more open to the media than any White House in recent memory.

Anyone who never met a man he didn't like just isn't trying hard enough.

Why does the world have to destroy anything that doesn't fit in? We still can't figure out that this is the most important reason to love something

Yet the sameness is also a trap. It's part of the narrowing of your world, the tunnel vision of age. When something different happens to you, it's hard to see it as a good thing. Which means you can't always recognize a perfect moment or get yourself to a place where one can happen. Or sometimes perfect moments happen and you don't even realize it. That is why you need to travel.

Jaren later zou Bruno beseffen dat het kleinburgerlijke wereldje van kantoorbedienden en consultants toleranter, gastvrijer en opener was dan dat van de alternatieve jeugd, die in die tijd werd belichaamd door de hippies.

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

That's pretty much why I'm a UU, Curtis. Because our ministers can be gay, trans, Buddhist, atheist, any race, or same-sex adoptive parents with mixed-race families. You name it. That's the future. Everybody's in." "Here's to the future," said Adrian. We all lifted our water glasses in a toast.

They're not very open to change in Hell—especially when that change includes lessening the so-called evil inside of their high-ranking demons. Good is the one thing that scares them—it's very unpredictable.

You've got to learn to let people be themselves,

Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.