Quotes About Transparency

So, unless you've embezzled money outright or murdered someone and want me to hide the body, I won't be getting in any deeper than I already am.

kids marked by the special thinness that one has only once, the transparent thinness of early maturity, when, without knowing it, you are immortal. And completely permeable. When you can walk indifferently down the street with a lover because you have become that lover. Two small people without dislike of suspicion.

CEO Harry Stonecipher

Distrust environments where requirements are gathered, specifications are written, and then coding starts, all in isolation.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

only what is really confessed is really forgiven.

How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.

Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.

Intimacy came faster when a person wore their pain and poor luck for all to see.

I still find that a willingness to be honest—especially about things that one might be expected to conceal—often leads to much more gratifying exchanges with other human beings.

Communications like these can still be awkward, but a wasteland of embarrassment and social upheaval can generally be avoided by following a single precept: Do not lie.

When you tell the truth, you have nothing to keep track of. The world itself becomes your memory, and if questions arise, you can always point others back to it. You can even reconsider certain facts and honestly change your views. And you can openly discuss your confusion, conflicts, and doubts with all comers. A commitment to the truth is naturally purifying of error.

Many lives are almost scandal-proof. Vulnerability comes in pretending to be someone you are not.

How would your relationships change if you resolved never to lie again? What truths about yourself might suddenly come into view? What kind of person would you become? And how might you change the people around you?

To speak truthfully is to accurately represent one's beliefs. But candor offers no assurance that one's beliefs about the world are true.

Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. Knowing that we told the truth in the past leaves us with nothing to keep track of. We can simply be ourselves in every moment. In

I came away convinced that lying, even about the smallest matters, needlessly damages personal relationships and public trust.

Cuando decimos la verdad, no tenemos nada a lo que seguir el rastro.

I guess that was the forerunner of our Saturday morning meetings. We wanted everybody to know what was going on and everybody to be aware of the mistakes we made. When somebody made a bad mistake—whether it was myself or anybody else—we talked about it, admitted it, tried to figure out how to correct it, and then moved on to the next days work.

Sam wouldn't let us hedge on a price at all. Say the list price was $1.98, but we had only paid 50 cents. Initially, I would say, 'Well, it's originally $1.98, so why don't we sell it for $1.25?' And he'd say, 'No. We paid 50 cents for it. Mark it up 30 percent, and that's it. No matter what you pay for it, if we get a great deal, pass it on to the customer.' And of course that's what we did." It

We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what.

Here we go again," Obama told me as we entered one hearing in which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was testifying. "We will faithfully pretend to be asking questions, but we will instead give statements. She will faithfully pretend to answer our questions, but will instead answer questions we didn't ask so as to deliver talking points we've all heard before. And the hearing will end, and we will walk out of here, calling it 'democratic accountability.

APERT  (APE'RT)   adj.[apertus, Lat.]Open.

The world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it