Quotes About Transparency

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

I don't try to be candy coated. I don't try to walk on eggshells. I am what I am. Love me or hate me.

There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.

I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.

Whatever I did, I did with love and I did with honesty.

I've come to believe that total nakedness, that is absolute transparency, that is utter and unfettered and profound visibility, is the only way that we can truly love. Anything less, is self-defense.

People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

All that counts is the truth. Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

You are the one honest thing I've done in my whole life.

She had the world's worst poker face: her feelings floated across them like reflections on a still pond.

Marty used to tell her she had the world's worst poker face: her feelings floated across her features like reflections on a still pond.

that counts is the truth, McCafferty," he would say, just before the beer turned his conversation to blather. "Without it you're basically just juggling people's daft ideas.

But you don't want a retrospective, and you really don't want a summary. You want a rich, cohesive, detailed, and real view into the person's personal life or job.

I have always held in high regard individuals who informed me that certain behavior or policies were inappropriate. I respect candor. My door is always open for news—good or bad. Many leaders only want to hear the positive. It is dangerous to be employed by such people. Those who never want to hear bad news don't want to know when they are off course.

Write each day as if no one will see it, yet write in a way as if the whole world will see it.

As somebody back then wrote, "Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.

Telling the truth often elicits hostility and anger.

We told the truth. We obeyed the law. We kept the peace.

You don't need a social scientist to tell you that people behave less ethically when they think nobody can see them.

If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one's self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby)

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. —NIELS BOHR

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.