Quotes About Transparency

Yet why not say what happened?

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

But laboratory, radiology, and pathology results were computerized relatively early (many hospitals and clinics did so in the 1990s), and some healthcare systems began experimenting with giving patients access to them.21 While this information was less fraught than doctors' notes, many in the medical establishment still worried about how patients might handle seeing such results unfiltered.

There is really no such thing as a secret; everybody likes to tell, and everybody does tell.

It was one of the good things about him. Whatever he might not be telling you, what he did tell you was the truth.

Più una società si allontana dalla verità, più odierà quelli che la dicono»

an organization that has a culture where everyone's afraid to speak candidly is a place where people live amid delusion and fantasy

The S in SPARK stands for Speak with Candor.

Religion, for Father Pavel, involved no escape from the natural into the supernatural, no repudiation of this world for the sake of a better one whose unreality made it more malleable to our wishes. In his perspective, the natural and the supernatural were one and the same: the world became transparent, with the light of eternity shining from the other side.

I don't like clever books; I like honest books.

Months after leaving office, he wrote to the Bank of the United States and admitted that he did not know his account balance because he had lost his bank book—this from the man who had created the bank.

Yet he was more vulnerable to criticism than he admitted.

Hamilton always expressed himself frankly, no matter what the consequences.

At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs— as long as no one is watching, anything goes.

At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs—as long as no one is watching, anything goes. Systems

La realidad debe primar sobre las relaciones públicas, pues no se puede engañar a la naturaleza.   RICHARD P. FEYNMAN (1918-1988)

Had the Chinese been more open about the disease when it first appeared, many people might have spared.

I'm not much to talk about. What you see is what you get.

There was nothing she had neglected to tell him, nothing he had neglected to tell her. People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things properly, there's nothing much to regret.

perfectly clear. To me, and to

not how Washington works. Nobody washes their dirty linen in public. So you need some other outsider. And you've got two of them sitting right in front of you.

Muller scanned one scrap of paper after another. Griezman's output was prodigious. Most of it was normal ass-covering bullshit. Trivia from below to be shoveled up above. Standard practice. Everyone did it. No one ever wanted the buck to stop with him. No one ever wanted to be at an official inquiry, saying, "Yes, it was me who judged it not worth passing on. So it's all my fault." There

Godly teachers encourage questions; those who demand unthinking agreement have something to hide.

They only throw clean ones