Quotes About Openness

I'm going to be frank, Max..." "Of course. All cards on the table." But he gave me a poker smile.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

In Haiti, it - people seemed - in my experience in Haiti, people are so open to photographs and journalism. And there doesn't seem to be the same sort of restrictions or wariness about the press that you would experience in Washington, for instance, on many levels.

Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

We need to maybe think a little less about the science of building walls and that waste of time and energy and start to understand what is love.

How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan.

I do believe in doing the work and getting yourself together because love can be right in your face, but if you're not ready to receive it, it will be wasted.

I'm not embarrassed of anything that I watch.

I don't really watch one player and copy him or anything like that but if I see something that I think could work then maybe I'll try it.

To be honest, I never really had watched much sci-fi.

If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.

I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit.

I'm trying to tell you that there's a new wave on the continent. A new wave of openness and democratization in which, since 2000, more than two-thirds of African countries have had multi-party democratic elections. Not all of them have been perfect, or will be, but the trend is very clear.

It's nice to know there's a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I'm not the center of the world - in a good way.

Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way.

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you.

I think, in some ways, I like it when people tell me what they're thinking. I would rather have it that way than masquerade as if you're totally unbiased and objective.

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Where we are as a nation is due to having an openness to the people of the world. It's incredibly important. I firmly believe that we cannot shut our borders to immigrants. I think a fair and just immigration policy is good for our country and good for our society.

We cannot be so scared that our ideas or opinions will not survive being tested. If you are afraid of being wrong, then you might not have a good argument.