Quotes About Openness

When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'

Humor prevents a hardening of the attitudes.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

We do not prescribe any prayer; we welcome all prayer.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Humility" If you don't have it, you're gonna get it.

Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

Even though I was fairly certain God wasn't Ted Bundy, I kept an open mind, since this phone call was getting a bit confusing.

A friend asks, "Tell me one word which is significant in any kinds of relationship." Another friend says, "LISTEN!

It is my firm belief that it is a mistake to hold firm beliefs

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

When you think like a child your imagination is free and anything is possible.

Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination

I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded.

Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

I think the imagination helps us move out of the purely oppositional mentality and see the world in a richer and more variegated way.

The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

You're only limited by your passion and your imagination. Be open to the possibilities, take chances.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.