Quotes About Transparency

Questions are only offensive to those who have something to hide

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.

The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

If I'm no real good, I prefer to be just frankly no good. I don't want to disguise myself as a man of learning. I don't want to be the representative of a hobby. I want to be what nature made me—no good.

He acted as if he could detect in her face nothing but its external beauties of form and texture. Whereas, of course, flesh is never wholly opaque; the soul shows through the walls of its receptacle.

Las palabras pueden ser como los rayos X, si se emplean adecuadamente: pasan a través de todo.

Las palabras pueden ser como los rayos X, si se emplean adecuadamente: pasan a través de todo. Las lees y te traspasan.

Sooner or later you'll have to tell the truth to someone.

In this transparency, the footprints of the little birds spoke with a muffled voice. What they spoke of was entirely without significance, or else something capable of lifting a life off its hinges: there was no way of knowing.

Se lei vuole una cosa e però ne ha paura non ha che da mettere un vetro in mezzo... tra lei e quella cosa... potrà andarle vicinissimo eppure rimarrà al sicuro... Non c'è altro... io metto pezzi di mondo sotto vetro perché quello è un modo di salvarsi... si rifugiano i desideri lì dentro, al riparo dalla paura... una tana meravigliosa e trasparente... Lo capisce lei tutto questo?

transparent evasion exercises.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

We never realise how transparent we are.

Truth had a way of coming out on top—and it was just as well for everybody that it did. If there ever came a day when truth was so soundly defeated that it never emerged, but sank, instead, under the sheer volume of untruth that the world produced, then that would be a sad day for Botswana, and for the people who lived in Botswana. It would be a sad day for the whole world, that day.

It's just that I think people should be…well, a bit more honest. We don't like being told half-truths. Or being lied to…People can tell, you know. They know when they're being lied to. Politicians find that out – eventually.