Quotes About Transparency

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

In that moment there was no pretense between them, no lingering vestige of reserve or attempt to escape, no denial. It was final and complete.

His face crumpled a little. It was highly expressive, mirroring his thoughts and feelings more than he wished.

Ask her her opinion of anything, and instead of judging what is appropriate to say, she will tell you what she really thinks.

I see that you are capable of secrecy but quite incapable of a lie.

He wanted the truth and knew he could not get it by hostile means.

You've learned to express yourselves too well for anything to remain veiled or mysterious.

But what I hope for in a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

People follow a person who they feel "speaks the Truth.

Each thing in the world is translucent.

scripture: a true and honest accounting of everything that underlies the frantic performance of life.

The great thing about alpha was that it could be explained:

Sometimes, never let them see you sweat, is truly bad advice. The work of an individual who cares often exposes the grit and determination and effort that it takes to be present. Perfecting your talk, refining your essay and polishing your service until all elements of you disappear might be obvious tactics, but they remove the thing we were looking for: you.

Transparency in the traditional school might destroy it.

If you hide your spark, bury your ideas, keep your questions and notions from the team, you have hurt them as badly as if you had stolen a laptop and fenced it on eBay.

Permission Marketers are totally obvious about their objectives with the consumer.

Specific is a kind of bravery Specific means accountable.

There are certain moments in life when hard, hot truth shines at you like a spotlight from heaven, like the focused beam from a lighthouse on the shore of yourself, and you find yourself stripped naked in its light. You can't hide from it. You can't close your eyes and wish it away. It's truth; easy truth or unbearable truth, either way, it won't be vanquished. And there you are for all to see, stuck in its merciless glare.

The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.

What I think we as the church lack, though, is a place to talk about how things really are now. In our desire to be an inspiration to one another we often veil what is true, because what is true is not always inspirational. But hurting believers whose lives are in tatters often need real help. If we were able to put aside our need for approval long enough to be authentic, then, surely, we would be living as the church.

Self-government is, literally, deformed by lying; it cannot function when those in office assume as a matter of course that, when necessary or advantageous, they can mislead the citizenry.

Precisely because public discussion, debate, and deliberation are fundamental to democracy, deliberate misrepresentation is more easily exposed.

Of course, you can't lie forever. Lies have short shelf lives. Lies go bad. Lies rot and stink up the joint.