Quotes About Transparency

The louder he proclaims his honesty, the faster we count the silver.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

I spoke the truth to my husband, but not all the truth.

I'm sorry I thrust so much on you at once. I'm not known for subtlety. My delicate side wore away many years ago.

It was easier to agree than to tell the truth.

You try so hard to shield me, and protect me, and really, there is no need, you try so hard to hide what you want, how you feel, and of course you can't.

I try not to be mean or hurtful, but otherwise I'm not much into self-editing.

When I was in a relationship, I was faithful." "I have no proof of that." The smile faded. "I wouldn't do that. I don't get the point. If someone's unhappy, talk about it. If you can't fix it, man up and be honest about wanting to leave.

I am unable to lead a life based on an illusion.

everyone wants one person in the world to whom they can tell the truth and from whom they will hear the truth. Become that person.

Never be afraid of the conversations you are having. Be afraid of the conversations you are not having.

A friend who is a high-level executive, intimidating to many, recently promoted a courageous employee who walked into his office with a large bucket of sand and poured it on the rug. "What the hell are you doing?" demanded my friend. The employee replied, "I just figured I'd make it easier for you to bury your head in the sand on the topic I keep bringing up and you keep avoiding." You

The point is—if you want something from me, tell me! If you're upset with me, tell me! If there's something you want me to do or stop doing, tell me! If I said something that didn't go down well with you, stop the conversation right then and there and tell me! And if you're happy with me, tell me!

Ordinary language fixes the difference between handmade images like Goya's and photographs by the convention that artists make drawings and paintings while photographers take photographs. But the photographic image, even to the extent that it is a trace (not a construction made out of disparate photographic traces), cannot be simply a transparency of something that happened. It is always the image that someone chose; to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art-and in criticism today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.

Hard? Yeah, especially when they don't tell people their treatment might be bullshit.

To tell the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. —Buddha

I remember everything about it—with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent.

The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.

Posting the behind the scenes of your life creates top of the mind awareness.

He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

He wore his averageness lightly, almost proudly, like a transparent scholar's gown, underneath which he was nakedly an administrator.