Quotes About Transparency

If you don't want to be foolish, don't try to fool anyone.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Do not trust governments more than governments trust their own people.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

It is always more valuable to report the truth.

Cut the crap and tell me what color panties you're wearing.

It seems like such a waste of time to expend all that energy trying to convince the world you're better than everyone else. I can't understand it." ''Of course you can't. You like nothing better than to point out all your character flaws to everyone who'll listen." She must have found his exasperation amusing because she smiled. "They'll discover those flaws for themselves if they're around me long enough. I just save them the effort.

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.

You scare them, Ma," Isaac says. Why? Because I made them all sign confidentiality agreements? Because I speak my mind and know exactly what I want? Why should I pretend people are doing me a favor when I'm paying them? I have no use for that sort of nonsense. Once

You can find out anything you want about a car now, and especially every bit of information about the price, without relying on the dealers.

as frank and open and honest as the eye of a little child. It looks one in the face and knows no fear or shame. It has nothing to explain and need make no apologies.

Another writer described the building as being "as frank and open and honest as the eyes of a little child. It looks one in the face and knows no fear or shame. It has nothing to explain and need make no apologies.

To be REAL means waking up. Waking up to the inner-truth of who we are and what drives us. It requires an honest look in the mirror to acknowledge that we are not perfect. Waking up means we are willing to transform ourselves from fear-based mindsets and behaviors to become a better person than who we are today. Becoming a REAL leader requires authenticity, humility, caring, transparency, and discernment. Robertson, Susan. Real Leadership: Waken To Wisdom. The Books Factory. Kindle Edition.

There is something within us that responds deeply to people who level with us.

The first thing the attendees saw when they walked in was a poster with the question "What are our mokitas?"—a Papua New Guinea word for that which everyone knows and no one will speak of: the elephant in the room.

What is needed now is for leaders to become more open, more flexible, less egoistic and less hypocritical. We must loosen our death grip on whatever we believe to be the truth simply because it is how we want the truth to look. We must be honest with ourselves and invite honesty from others.

Like most people who are anecdotal, he told me nothing. He revealed nothing about himself. He talked a lot, but he only told me what he wanted me to know. Which wasn't much.

When you sit that way, you look kind of like a beach ball with a head," he continued. "Your haircut is really, really bad, I'm probably going to lose my job for helping you this way, and I'm dying to fuck you." He glanced at her. "That honest enough for you?

Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . .

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good.

His dad said if you did something wrong to someone in public, you ought to admit it in public, too.