Quotes About Transparency

Mimi didn't care about secrecy. She led a proclaimed life, and once she got talking she held back nothing.

Was she not so simple and free of ulterior motives as she looked? Well, neither was I.

The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.

Nobody should pretend to be always one hundred per cent honest. I wish I knew how to be seventy, sixty per cent." I swore she must be one hundred and ten, two hundred.

Whenever you have a lot of money in play, combined with the ability to hide misbehavior behind complexity, you should expect widespread fraud to happen.

he's the only one who didn't slide a piece of paper across the table with a number on it

Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.

I prefer an injurious truth to a useful error. Truth heals any pain it may inflict on us.

einen offenen, treuherzigen Menschen.

We would rather admit our moral errors, mistakes and crimes than our scientific errors.

I could have made a casserole out of these things, but you always say you like to know what you're eating.

While authenticity is the "real you," vulnerability is that "you" naked—that is, who you are without artifice.

Supposedly nobody outside the group knew there was a group. Of course we all knew that wasn't true. High school was like the little clear plastic tunnels that Paul's hamsters lived in: you could run a long way but never get out, and always, everyone could see you.

Mystification has little to do with the vocabulary used. Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

a "free People think they have a right to an Explanation of the Circumstances which give rise to the Necessity under which they suffer.

I want my writing to be as clear as water I can see through so that what I experienced is told without my being in any way in the way.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

It's a limited hang-out.

Son, frankness is a virtue only when you're talkin' about yourself, and then it's a nuisance.

When people try to hide things from you, they shouldn't be nice to you. They ought to ignore you or throw a pie at you or do something other than smile.

Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.

The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.