Quotes About Openness

If you are approachable, if you keep your line of communication open, then very often, you get to hear what you need to hear.

I very purposely have an open communication culture, where I encourage employees to approach me with their ideas without dominating them.

An approachable and authentic CEO is essential to fostering a high-performance, open communications culture.

I say what I mean. I don't speak in code. That's why I am a star and ace communicator.

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.

If you really want to conceal something, leave it lying about where everyone can see it.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

I appreciate women who lay all their concerns out, and can talk through things.

No, I don't want you to draw any conclusion. I want you to listen to what I just said.

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

The most confronting thing you can do is talk about your feelings and open yourself up.

To write what is not dead on the page, one has to be open to all kinds of disturbances and challenges and confusion.

It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.

I'm very curious. I feel more comfortable surrounded by people not like me.

I feel like my strength is surrounding myself with people who have an ear for things, and then they play it for me. I'm always looking; my ear is always open.

When you travel, try having an open mind, not just about the city that you're in but about the surrounding areas.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

I'm instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.

I would love to be on a show where I'm allowed to play a character that you're not suspicious of, from the get-go, and who's someone that you can just relax with, take in and like, right off the bat.