Quotes About Openness

To play a good guy is nice because in a way, he is so open for answers.

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

A good question has many answers.

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

I'll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

Everyday some people discover you! What good things have you got for them? Just like preparing a soup, prepare good things and keep them ready for the people who discover you!

I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.

I've always been open. That's made my resume. I go with what happens, and then I try to make good choices with what I get offered.

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

A lot of good things can come from not expecting anything.

When you're wide open, the world is a good place.

Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.

As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.

We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.

No good ever came from not talking.

Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.

Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day.

As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.