Quotes About Transparency

If you show life that isn't yours you are wasting your time without knowing it. Let people see for themselves.

Character is defined by what you do when no one is looking, but the visible can shatter any perfect impression.

I was going to stop pretending that just because we were in ministry we were perfect. I was tired of wearing the mask of ministry, and knew that I needed to start living the life.

Calling it as you see it, should include yourself as well.

A question that always haunts me. Why can't people just be real? It's easier being real than pretend being real. Give yourself a chance.

One must be honest with himself. Then it will be much better than it is now.

Clear and plain glass is considered cheap while the same glass if tinted with color is considered expensive. that's today's world. It's better to be tinted than being clear.

Live your life as if everyone will discover what you do and who you are. If no one holds your secrets, there's nothing to compel you to male choices that are not your own.

Honesty is a big ticket item seemingly just out of the reach of the frivolous!

Honesty is one of the key elements to a great relationship. If you cannot be honest with your partner, stay single.

My life's an open book. Some of the pages are a little ripped, but it's open.

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence

have no way of knowing what combination of external pressures and personal failings led that physician to conceal a less costly cure from my friend and keep her on expensive and ineffective drugs with a gallery of noxious side effects instead, but from outside the walls of the office, it certainly looked like a callous betrayal of whatever ethics the medical profession might still have left—and again, the view from outside is the one that counts.

The desire to control everything is giving way to pluralism, uniformity to diversity, centralization to localism, opacity to transparency, and immobilisme, or the resistance to change, to experimentation. The state is beginning to move in each case (though it could move a lot faster).

Transparency was a guardian of frugality, just as confusion had been a handmaiden of extravagance.

It was the first family-related encounter I could think of that didn't involve a hint of secrets or sadness lurking below the surface.

All religions die of one disease - that of being found out

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

God is strong enough to overcome his enemies by becoming vulnerable, transparent, and humble—the only hope, in fact, for turning enmity into friendship.

It isn't the size of the window that determines how much you see. It's which way the window is facing, and how close you are, and whether the glass is clear.

Authenticity begins when you start by admitting that you are inauthentic.

This kind of thing is happening here in Al-Ahram all the time. It's very difficult to keep your hands clean. There are journalists in this building who have done just that. I know it for a fact. They get apartments. Not exactly as gifts, of course. But take that apartment for half a million: The journalist will 'buy' it for one hundred thousand, then sell it for the market price and make a huge profit.

Don't use fancy words to make things sound better than they are or try to impress people. Build your breakthrough objectives using straight, clear, everyday language that your employees will understand.

In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.