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Quotes About Transparency

For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I felt like she had such a mask on - I thought it would be a good idea to leave her with nothing and become completely transparent.
~ Cate Blanchett
I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.
~ David M. Kelley
When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.
~ N. R. Narayana Murthy
The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.
~ Julian Assange
I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
~ Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
~ Aaron Koblin
I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.
~ Dean Koontz
Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.
~ Roustam Tariko
My congressional record speaks for itself, and my ability to build coalitions locally, nationally and across the aisles in Congress is transparent.
~ Danny K. Davis
The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
~ Irene Rosenfeld
Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you're shady about it, when you're not transparent about it. If you tell everyone, 'Here's what's going on. Here's the process; here are the people that are playing a role' - that's being transparent.
~ Sean Spicer
I have often endeavoured to view the circulation of the blood in terrestrial animals, but without success, by reason that no parts of their bodies were sufficiently transparent.
~ Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice.
~ Winnie Byanyima
Our projects are transparent and speedy. We act what we say.
~ Shehbaz Sharif
As the Director of the FBI, I am committed to ensuring that the Bureau is being transparent and responsive to legitimate congressional requests.
~ Christopher A. Wray
This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I'm not gonna sacrifice the safety of the American people or our ability to protect the American homeland.
~ Eric Holder
The way we structure our backend, we key the payments to the box office - so that cuts the negotiating way down, and it's very transparent. One of the things I'm most proud of is that we're really transparent with our process.
~ Jason Blum
I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.
~ Vicente Fox
I'm always so overly transparent that sometimes I'm like, damn, am I saying too much? Should I say this? Should I not say this?
~ August Alsina
Pep is not the best coach in the world. I prefer Mourinho. He is the No.1, because Mourinho is more transparent and more direct than Guardiola.
~ Lothar Matthaus
We're going to need a new social contract with the tech world one that asks for consent, and one with transparent goals. Right now, the goals of technology are not aligned with our goals as humans. We need technology that empowers us to make the life choices we want to make.
~ Tristan Harris
What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.
~ Beth Brooke
There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.
~ Eric Zorn
Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.
~ George Villiers