Quotes About Openness

Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution.

I like embracing other cultures.

I'm open. I like new experiences in life and new cultures.

Under no condition can you teach curiosity.

The government must be open enough to provide robust impact assessments of leaving the single market or the customs union, including region-by-region and sector-by-sector analysis.

I'd make a cute couple with a lot of people, you know what I'm sayin'?

I have never been a cynical person.

I think it's dangerous being cynical because you close doors rather than open them.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

Closed systems run down and get more chaotic over time. Always get better by being 'open' to outside energy and templates of better ways to function.

I don't like closed systems.

With me, everything's right on the table.

If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

Eating is something we all have to do. When we sit down at the table, we nurture ourselves, and hence, all our resistance goes away. We are open to receiving good and taking it in with gusto and pleasure.

The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.

I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

Don't have rules, taboos, or limits.

I wish that sometimes there is a little more honesty and that you can discuss things openly. There should not be taboo subjects.

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

The notion of what is public and what is private has been dissolved. My children see documentaries; they see Instagram. Everyone is very open: it has become less taboo to expose lives.

I'm such a spiritual person and in Sweden it's a bit taboo to be too open with your spirituality; they always think it's a bit weird.