Quotes About Openness

Why would some people attracted to what is unfamiliar and others tat what they knew. She thought It may to do how comfortable you are in your own life, how well you though you belong

Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Stay open to opportunity -- you never know where your next important connection will be made.

good ideas are embraced whether they come from a senior executive or the company cook.

Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected, maybe - vulnerability and freedom.

I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.

As the costs of storing and retrieving information have collapsed, sharing expertise ought to be easy. But the cooperative approach based on openness and trust undermines the status of managers, whose wealth depends on the ability to create the impression that they have knowledge that their subordinates cannot be trusted to share.

Tolerance means to have the heart open to all differences; it is the honorable attitude of receiving another's opinion in order to appreciate it; it is the generous willingness to reach an agreement for the common good. Tolerance is the most precious virtue of democracy.

If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.

You don't know why, and I don't know why, but why not?

I could feel the open air, taste salt on the breeze.

I had seen her vulnerable, now she wanted to see me.

As always when she was trying to learn a new language, she opened her mind and let the sound wash through it.

Speaking straight felt different. She found she liked it.

Being reactionary is understanding that it is not possible to demonstrate or convince, only to invite.

Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines. RUMI, from GRANITE AND WINEGLASS

Yoga is about opening ourselves to improvement and new ideas, rather than remaining stuck in the closed loops of deep subconscious patterns.

Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one's usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.

If we would please in society, we must be prepared to be taught many things we know already by people who do not know them.

When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.

I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

Don't interrupt, but be interruptible.