Quotes About Transparency

There's a scarcity of the authentic in our culture. "So many people are liars:

Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it.

I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.

Caro needed to be important. It was boring and typical and transparent as hell, even to her, but she couldn't turn it off any more than she could quit having arms.

A drunken tongue tells what's on a sober mind.

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.

The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.

Most murky writing is inadvertent, a sincere if doomed effort to communicate. Far worse is the deliberate attempt to say something that you know readers won't like in a way that you hope they won't understand.

Without the adjustment, you are working under a lie. Everyone knows it and has to hide to protect themselves. This is no way to get good software done and deployed;

Cards on a wall is a way of practicing transparency, valuing and respecting the input of each team member. The project manager has the task of translating the cards into whatever format is expected by the rest of the organization.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable; be honest and frank anyway.

A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.

Yo reservaba mi interioridad, mientras él ponía la suya a la vista. Ocultar algo es tener algo que ocultar. Yo no lo tenía, pero ocultaba, asomaba al mundo como quien viene de enterrar un tesoro.

Ahora que lo pienso, es bastante asombroso qué pocos secretos guarda la gente. Un par de charlas en un café, y ya están todos revelados. El secreto persiste sólo mientras nadie pregunta.

The mirror does not flatter, it faithfully shows whatever looks into it; namely, the face we never show to the world because we cover it with the persona, the mask of the actor.

too much honesty.

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

Mas a verdade é que chega-se sempre longe demais quando não se quer Ir Direto Aos Fatos

Recall our XP case study, where Greg Woodward noted that a lot of developers dislike the extreme environment and end up leaving after a few weeks. The aspect that most distresses them? The transparency. You're either producing good code, or you're obviously not. Some are simply not comfortable with this blunt assessment of what they're actually accomplishing.

Anytime our sermons become confessional, they become more powerful.

Edward Markquart, a brilliant homoletician, wrote: "People want their preachers to be authentic human beings . . . who experience the same feelings and struggles as the laity, who do not hide behind the role of reverend so and so.

The naked statement—a black man has been killed by a white policeman—is such a fearsome divider of the races that the people who preside over a city immediately try to cover it with details.

I much prefer it when things are straightforward. They don't have to be simple or easy, but they do have to be fair.