Quotes About Transparency

I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.

It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised.

There are those who think that the private lives of candidates are none of our business. But when those candidates ask us for our attention as they explain their plans for how they will represent us, no one should be surprised at our interest in how they represent themselves.

When writing 'Behind the Mask,' I opened up on every level. Hopefully, even the more knowledgeable fans, who really know me, will be surprised when they read it.

Nothing really surprises me anymore. You put yourself out there - you're open and honest with what you have to deal with.

Since I've been so honest with them, my fans know me very well so I don't think anything surprises them at this point. I've always told them exactly what's going on in my life and in my head, and because of that, I don't think anything is a huge surprise to them anymore.

I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it.

Her teeth had the nice shiny look that comes from standing all night in a glass of solution.

She brought the glass over. Bubbles rose in it like false hopes.

you can't cheat an honest man,' and an honest man admits his own shortcomings.

While covering her from neck to ankles, it was thin and clung to her figure with alarming tenacity.

Calling things by their true names cuts through the lies that excuse, buffer, muddle, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness.

works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift through doors and walls, and their smell of death, disgust us not more than we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously.

I want to be liked for what I do, not for what I pretend to be. I try - maybe too forcefully at times - to have the courage of my convictions and to stand my ground when necessary.

Telling the truth is an important part of discovering who you are

No one knows where this will lead, and what power sharing or cohabitation it will carve, but it will certainly bring us face-to-face with our own inconsistencies, and give our employees a chance to feel effectively empowered—with a strong voice. We should never be scared of our own people, whatever it is they have to say or demand—the result is always vastly superior to the ostrich approach of looking for subtle ways of keeping their demands subdued.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true.

I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world.

YaÅŸam?n?z boyunca yapmaya mecbur olduÄŸunuz tek ÅŸey kendinize kar?? dürüst olmakt?r.

So why are we still being lied to about these cases? They seem to be missing a basic point about Democracy— they are our employees. They're employed by us— We, The People. How dare they withhold the truth from us!

You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed.

The ideal organizational environment encourages everyone to observe, collect data, and speak up.

Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display.